Michael o lachlan biography definition

Michael O'Laughlen grew up on the same Baltimore street as his childhood friend, John Wilkes Booth.  O'Laughlen worked as a manufacturer of ornamental plaster before joining the Confederate Army at the beginning of the Civil War.  O'Laughlen was discharged in June 1862.  He returned to Baltimore to work as a clerk in a family feed business.

Booth recruited O'Laughlen in the late summer of 1864 to participate in the plan to kidnap Abraham Lincoln and take him to Richmond, where he would--it was hoped--later be exchanged