Program on C-Span this weekend

[L Verge]

Few people today know the line of succession; but if you want to follow this fictional plot line, the brains behind it was a cousin of Foster, so he would know. This book makes Booth nothing but a puppet doing what he is told - along with his ragtag compatriots. I think it was the author's way of covering all bases: North, South, political, financial, military, simple conspiracy vs. grand conspiracy, etc.

I did catch a few minor errors: Spangler holding Booth's horse, Aunt Rachel being a free woman while working for the Surratts, and the biggest was the proposition that, if Foster didn't work out, they would bring George McClellan back from Europe and install him as president. I didn't think McClellan went to Europe until several years after the war?

BTW: Speaking of McClellan, I decided early on to dislike the man; so I have never really paid more than a cursory thought about his politics, other than his being a peace candidate in 1864. What was his position on the issue of slavery? Likewise, this book throws in the thought that Billy Sherman had once taught in the South and liked the area and could be persuaded to work with its people. What were his views on slavery? Please think 1860 if you decide to answer.