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York governor Washington Hunt at Niagara Falls.[2] According to the testimony of Peace Democrat Clement
Vallandigham, he met Thompson and talked to him
about creating a Northwestern Confederacy and obtained
money for arms, which was routed to a subordinate.
Thompson gave Ben Woods, the owner of the New York
Daily News, money to purchase arms.[3]
One plot was a planned burning of New York on November 25, 1864, in retaliation for Union Generals Philip
Sheridan and William Tecumseh Sherman's scorchedearth tactics in the south.[4] Some speculate that John
Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, met
with Thompson, but this has not been proven (Thompson worked hard to clear his name of involvement in the
assassination in the years after the war). His manor called
Home Place in Oxford, Mississippi, was burned down
by Union troops in 1864.
After the Civil War, Thompson ed to England and later
returned to Canada as he waited for passions to cool in
the United States. He eventually came home and settled
in Memphis, Tennessee, to manage his extensive holdings. Thompson was later appointed to the board of the
University of the South at Sewanee and was a great benefactor of the school.
He died in Memphis and was interred in Elmwood Cemetery.
William Faulkner, who was also a resident of Oxford,
loosely based several ancestral members of the Compson
family, featured in The Sound and the Fury, on Thompson.
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