Charles S. Taft

[BettyO]

This is such a great site because everyone benefits from some truly remarkable research. We often are drawn to a person, or aspect of this epic event, and go down a research path that leads to information that often sheds a whole new perspective. Example, if it weren't for Betty Ownsbey, we would have a one demensional image of Lewis Powell. If it weren't for Dave Taylor, we would know alot less about the Garrett family.

Jim - you are way too kind! But yes, I was intrigued by Powell by his affiliation with Colonel John Singleton Mosby whom I've admired since I was a small kid, and wanted to know just who and what this man was. I'm now tracking down his lady-loves and have uncovered more intriguing information about these Victorian "lady/cougars!"

Dave has done an admirable job with the Garrett family, indeed - as Linda has done with the Seward family.... new things have been upturned every day; as Kate H's recent discovery re: Davey Herold's poem -