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Charles Abraham Walker Blaine

Biograph
Born: January 1885, New-York City. His father, Walker Blaine (1855-1890) was a prominent Union
attorney and State Department official and the son of former U.S. President James G. Blaine. His mother,
Miriam (Born: 1862) was the daughter of a prominent South Carolina family of Jewish descent.

Their son, Charles, in addition to being an Associate with the New-York law firm Carter, Hughes &
Cravath (of which former New-York Gov. Charles Evans Hughes is a partner), is a spy for the
Confederacy, working for the Confederate State Department’s Special Operations Executive (also known
as Special Branch).

Family History His grandfather, Abraham Charles Myers, was a prominent Jewish American of the
early Republic, born on May 14, 1811 in Georgetown, South Carolina. He attended the United States
Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 1833. During the Seminole Wars, he served as an assistant
quartermaster in the United States Army, and was promoted to captain in 1839. He later served in the
Mexican-American War, becoming chief quartermaster of U.S. Army troops in Mexico.

Myers resigned from the U.S. Army in January 1861, and enlisted in South Carolina’s war effort, among
the first senior military officers to declare themselves for their state (which is today referred to as the
“First in Freedom”).

During the War of Southern Independence, Myers was appointed Quartermaster General of the
Confederate States Army, with the rank of colonel. After the truce was declared between the Union and
Dixie, Myers was awarded the rank of Major General and promoted to Army Deputy Chief of Staff.

Mother Issues In 1861, Gen. Myers had married Marion Twiggs, the daughter of Major General David
E. Twiggs, CSA (died: 1862). Their first child, Miriam, was born in 1862. (A second son, John Twiggs
Myers, became Major General and Commandant of the Confederate States Marines.)

After he retired from active service, Myers was approached by a group of land investors who wanted his
name to help promote a new city on the Gulf Coast of Florida for which they were encouraging
settlement. That city, Ft. Myers, founded in 1886 is named after him. Myers died in Richmond on June
20, 1889.

Walker Blaine (1855-1890)

In 1881, Miriam married Walker Blaine, whom she had met when he was serving as Union consul general
in Charleston. Blaine, born on May 8, 1855, was the son of Maine Gov. James G. Blaine and Harriet
(Stanwood) Blaine.

In 1876, Walker Blaine graduated from Yale College, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He
earned a law degree at Columbia Law School before joining the law office of U.S. Sen. Cushman Kellogg
Davis (R–Minn.) in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

In 1881, Blaine's father became President of the United States. The elder Blaine named his son Union
Consul General to Charleston, S.C., a post he held for three months, until war broke out between the
countries, and the younger Blaine returned to Washington, D.C., where his father promoted him to Third
Assistant Secretary of State, which office he held until his father’s election defeat in 1884.

His political fortunes in tatters, the younger Blaine then moved to Chicago to practice law, taking his wife
and infant son, Charles, with them. In 1889, Blaine moved to New-York to accept a partnership in a law
firm. He died unexpectedly in Washington, D.C. on January 15, 1890, of complications from pneumonia
that followed a bout of influenza.

With neither father nor husband alive (and a father-in-law who demonstrated no inclination to offer
financial support for a now ex-daughter-in-law or his grandson), Miriam Myers Blaine contemplated
returning to her native South Carolina, or possibly to Florida. She was secretly persuaded to remain in
New-York by a delegation of men who were affiliated with Confederate intelligence.

They convinced Mrs. Blaine that her (and the Confederacy’s) best interests were served by remaining in
New-York as a Confederate agent. As the daughter-in-law of a former Union President she was well-
placed to learn about news and other information that could be of great value to the South.
 “The Merry Widow”
Miriam Myers Blaine Arthur

An added coup in this campaign took place in 1891, when Blaine married Chester A. Arthur, the powerful
Collector of the Port of New-York (a job known as the “prize plum of Federal patronage”). Although the
marriage lasted just two years (Arthur dying from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1893), the union sealed the
financial future of Mrs. Blaine Arthur and her young son, Charles. Among her activities, she serves on the
board of the Metropolitan Opera and of Butler & Vanderbilt Maritime.

Blaine: “Power” of Attorney

Mrs. Blaine Arthur initiated her son into her other professional dealings at an early age. He was fully
engaged in her espionage activities by the time he was 14 years old. In 1903, Charles entered Columbia
University.

He graduated from Columbia in 1906 and enrolled in Yale Law School, earning honors in 1909, and
secured an appointment— through his family connections—\with the prestigious New-York law firm
Carter, Hughes & Cravath.

Spies, Lies, Lore, and Some More As a Union citizen, Blaine is more than a spy; he is a traitor in the
eyes of his country, and would be so treated—read: tried and hanged—if ever discovered. His “handler”
in the CSA Special Operations Executive (the formal name of Special Branch) is Special Agent Hugo
Black.

Through Black, he has met other prominent Union citizens who either support the Confederacy for
political reasons, who have profited from it in other ways.
 Special Agent Hugo Black
Confederate Special Branch

Among these “well-wishers” are Robert Todd Lincoln—the son of the late (and discredited) former Union
President Abraham Lincoln—former Publisher of The Chicago Times, and his son Abraham (“Jack”)
Lincoln II, the Publisher and President of The Chicago Times Company.

Robert Todd Lincoln Abraham (“Jack”) Lincoln II

 Lt. Col. David Owen Dodd (CSA)

Blaine has also been introduced to the head of Special Brach operations in the northeast, David Owen
Dodd, who maintains a network of operatives, agents, and informants that provide vital intelligence about
commerce and other kinds of traffic into the Empire State, New-York City, and the surrounding areas,
including the City of Philadelphia, which serves as the Union’s unofficial and operating capital.

In addition, while traveling on “business for the firm,” Blaine has been to Richmond, Virginia, where he
has met his superiors in the Special Branch, including the Undersecretary of State who oversees foreign
intelligence, Robert E. Lee III (the grandson of the Old Virginian; he is called “Rooney” after his father,
one of the Confederate war hero’s many sons).

While in the Confederate capital (where he was debriefed by Black and other handlers), Blaine was
introduced to members of the Reb aristocracy, many of whom held fond memories of his grandparents
and mother. Gabriel Van Dorn, the son of former Confederate President Earl Van Dorn and that country’s
Assistant Undersecretary of Homeland Affairs, became an especially convivial contact.

Blaine also attended a function in which he was introduced to former Confederate President Robert E.
Lee, Jr. (known as “Bobby,” and reported to be a mortal foe of his nephew, the similarly-named
Confederate spymaster), who is the youngest son of the War of Secession hero (and who himself served
as the Confederacy’s second chief executive).

(NUGGET: According to Hugo Black, the relationship between the Confederate aristocrats is further
complicated by Rooney Lee’s occasional habit of signing his name “Robert E. Lee II,” the implication
being that he—rather than his Uncle Bobby—is the true successor to the name “Robert Lee.”)
 Robert E. (“Bobby”) Lee. Jr. Robert E. (“Rooney”) Lee III

John Wilkes Booth Gabriel Van Dorn

At the same function in which he met the Lees, Blaine was introduced to one of the Grand Old Men of the
Confederacy, the one-time critically-acclaimed actor (and former Confederate Senator and diplomat) John
Wilkes Booth, who was instrumental in securing international recognition for the Confederacy during his
days as Ambassador to Great Britain in the days immediately following the War of Secession. He spoke
fondly of both your mother (whom he recalled from a meeting over 40 years ago) and your father, whom
he had met during his time as Union Consul in Charleston.
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(Reputed Capofamiglia—Boss—of the Morello Crime Family)

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