News Alert....

Terriorist try to set fire in several fashionalbe New York hotels
( Civil War event)

Germ Warfare takes new turn
 (Civil War event with small pox infected clothing)

Authorities uncover Attempt to blow up White House
 (will they never learn?)

Protesters riot in New York
 (Civil War draft riots)

,,,,,,,the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Does anyone have a diagram of the layout of Grover's? 

What, you should have your own regular column.

Quite an honor.  Good luck and thanks for sharing your story behind the presentation.  I too, wish I could see your presentation.   Ever thought about posting it on youtube?

Get well soon Rob, you don't want to miss the Quilt Show in Paducah

Look at this from Atzerodt's point of view.   You didn't do anything.  You didn't hurt anyone.   Why should you hang?   If talking is going to help keep you from getting hung, why shouldn't you?   Did Booth, or anyone else involved with killing President Lincoln, ever do anything for you that was worth your life?

His big mistake was timing.  He talked, but by then it was to late!

1) Abraham Lincoln by Benjamin Thomas
2)     same
3) Lincoln's Assassians by Chamlee

(Team of Rivals is also a good choice for #2)

Surely Mudd would also have recognized Booth's voice? 
He was a "profesional actor" who probably had a distinct voice.

That was very interesting, thanks for correcting me. 
I've heard of Fold3, but never accessed it. 

Did you find many of the eyewitness accounts contradictory?

I probably am shooting from the hip.  You seem to have looked into this more than I have.  

If I recall corectly, at one time, both Parker and Forbes left their position at the theater and had a drink or two.
You point out that Parker was charged with neglect.  Sgt. Cobb was where he was supposed to be.  Forbes and Parker were not.  Cobbs actions could not have saved Lincoln's life.  Cobb's testimony does help explain how & when Booth and Herold escape out of the city (and in which direction).   

IMO, if Forbes or Parker could have added something that was needed or useful in the trial, Stanton would have had them testify.  They didn't testify, so I am reaching the conclusion/opinion I stated earlier.

I have never been through the assassination papers.  Are you refering to The Lincoln Assassinatin - The Evidnece by Edwards & Steers (I don't have that), or something else?  Was it difficult to read through and find what your looking for.  Did you have to try and read hand written testimony?  What did you find exciting and didn't expect to find?  What were you dissapointed in.  I would love to hear about this.  It must have been a thrill.

Their statements were surpressed because anything they could possibly say would only be an embarressment to the govenment.  They also served no purpose in convicting the conspiritors and implicating confederate government

3 things
  1. ending slavery
  2. ending the civil war
  3. surviving the assassinaiton attempt

Happy Thanksgiving with a special prayer for our men and women who are serving our country and can't be with their families.

Wait a minute.  Now that I've thought about it, this was a trick question.  Davey was caught, photographed, and interogated.  He was taken into southern Md (along with James Boyd), where they either escaped or were allowed to escape, so the feds could follow them Hoping he would lead them to Booth. Right?     
(According to Dark Union)

I think Davey would have sung like a canary if he had been arrested within 24 hrs after the assassination.  He would have given the feds names and places along the escape route and Booth may have been apprehended sooner.