Booth, the Garretts and an Invitation to Tea

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The scenario of the boys chasing girls around with the bloody planks from the Garretts' porch is exactly what Miss Maude Motley used to describe to those on our Booth Tours. She was a grand, Southern lady who had known Lucinda Holloway, and she bragged that her grandfather was considered the handsomest man in Mr. Lee's army. She took several of us to her home one time, and Gen. Motley's portrait was hanging in all his glory. I would have followed that man anywhere -- even if he had been a Yankee! Miss Maude's basement was a Confederate museum in its own right.

I believe that the Lightfoots gave the Garrett boys several hundred acres of their farmland to cultivate after they were released from prison and because so much of their crop and possessions had been destroyed by the soldiers. Another Port Royal neighbor, James Coghill hired Joseph Bradley to represent the Garrett boys and then gave them each $100 when they were released. Bradley would play a role in the upcoming trials.

Dave, do you believe the version that has the ferry floating past its original moorings?