Rail Travel in the Civil War

[Laurie Verge]

This is a tad crude, but seems appropriate here: Most of us know that there were numerous pages missing from Booth's little date book (usually called his "diary") when found upon his body. We can account for two of the pages from the statements made by Dr. Richard Stuart and his wife.

One time on a Booth Escape Route Tour, however, one of the participants suggested what happened to the rest of the missing papers. Ahem, we do know that Booth and Herold were on the lam for a considerable amount of days -- and the body still continues to function without the benefits of an outhouse....

Sounds like a reasonable possibility to me, but not half as intriguing as surmising who cut those crucial pages with a full list of Booth's accomplices - from Johnson and Stanton on down -- inscribed on them.