. Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War . CREDENTIALS OF JAY COOKEs TRAVELLING BOND AGENTS 604 JAY C:()OKE guard a letter from the Subscription Agent, but the fel-low said he had never heard of such a man as Jay Cooke,It was several hours before the Maryland bond agentcould satisfy the police that he was not implicated inthe murder of the President/ and a week before it wasconsidered safe for him to resume his journeyings forfear of re-arrest In some parts of Kentucky even as late as in Marchand April, 1865, the banks were all closed because of theraids of bushwhackers and guerillas and in Mis
. Jay Cooke, financier of the Civil War . CREDENTIALS OF JAY COOKEs TRAVELLING BOND AGENTS 604 JAY C:()OKE guard a letter from the Subscription Agent, but the fel-low said he had never heard of such a man as Jay Cooke,It was several hours before the Maryland bond agentcould satisfy the police that he was not implicated inthe murder of the President/ and a week before it wasconsidered safe for him to resume his journeyings forfear of re-arrest In some parts of Kentucky even as late as in Marchand April, 1865, the banks were all closed because of theraids of bushwhackers and guerillas and in Missouriwhere the work was in charge of R. N. Allen, the onlybrother of Mrs, Jay Cooke who remained loyal to theUnion, many difficulties were to be overcome, left St. l^ouis in March. He wrote to the Sub-scrij)tion Agent of his experiences, which were various,as follows: I found the country mostly occupied by bushwhackers and butlittle or no business doing outside the towns; and within the townsand villages the people indisposed to
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