Mary Surratt's Denial of Lewis Powell

[Laurie Verge]

I love to speculate with the best of them, but I'm going to do my usual "history teacher" warning and say to please stipulate in your speculative postings that it is YOUR OPINION, not gospel truth. I hope that young students and beginning researchers join our conversations here, and I would hate for them to take some of our "guesses" as truth.

I think it would be very helpful also if we state our documentable reasons for thinking what we think. I have participated in other blogs where things got carried away, wrong information was being posted and repeated several times, etc.

I apologize if I sound like a disciplinarian or something, but I've been burned on this before... Roger is a former teacher, like I, so I'm pretty sure he backs me up on this.