In late 1864 , the Confederate States Secretary of the Navy , Stephen Mallory , ordered Bulloch to write a check drawn on " secret funds " to Patrick Martin , a Confederate blockade runner operating from Canada . These funds were intended to support the plot to kidnap Abraham Lincoln . Martin 's project later evolved into the successful assassination plot . Captain Martin and his ship were lost in a storm in December 1864 , as he was '' en route '' to Maryland with supplies for John Wilkes Booth
successful assassination
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
James Dunwoody Bulloch