The second mission for Lottie was a foray into Canada to retrieve a dispatch for Jefferson Davis from the leaders of the Confederate Intelligence Organization the Knights of the Golden Circle. The communiqué was of great importance detailing whereby the South would unite with the Northwest to fight against New England and the federal government.

On her trek southward to Virginia she made a stop in Washington D.C.. While there she convinced fellow Ohioan Edward M. Stanton that she was an English invalid seeking help with her debilitating rheumatism in the warm springs of Virginia.

She held the fool in her complete confidence. He arranged for the invalid woman to ride with Lincoln and his party to visit McClellan at Fredericksburg, on October 1,1862. McClellan issued the brazen actress a pass to move through the lines to Richmond.

Upon learning of the trickery, the infamous female emissary subjected him to; he offered a $10,000 reward for the wench dead or alive who had made a fool of him.


"What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning."
A Spanish maxim