Booth's Breakfast and his host.

[John Stanton]

"C. R" does not say "Breakfast or Lunch". Only that McDaniel fed the group. "A.R." does not say anything about food, but said the group arrived at Port Conway at "Almost Mid-day". It's under 5 miles from Cleydael to Office Hall (Rt 301 and Rt 3). Say an hour or less to eat at McDaniel's and 4 miles to Port Conway. So, McDaniel's is "1/2" way to Port Conway. Since Booth had supper at Cleydael - and that was a fight,- he didn't eat breakfast there. The Lucas cabin was another quarrel, so I would not expect Lucas to feed him too. (Lucas knew that there were meals available - half way to Port Conway) While we are on this topic, I believe that McDaniel was one of the "safe-houses" in King George. He was perfectly situated, for travelers, etc. Unfortunately, we don't have any records of others stopping there. So, I'm sticking with "Breakfast". If that's my story, then where did he have lunch? Wasn't supper at Garrett's? For Linda: This was on Monday April 24th, 1865.