Booth, the Garretts and an Invitation to Tea

[Linda Anderson]

(10-12-2014 12:02 PM)Wild Bill Wrote:  On my "erroneous" assertions W B Lightfoot, see Tidwell April 65, p. 192 and THG, Come Retribution 477-78. I incorrectly called him a Mosby man , but he was from 9 Va Cav (like Jett) and Tidwell thought him to be there to a certain whether Booth and Herold were dead or alive so that those awaiting his arrival south of there could disperse.

Bill, I made the error of calling Lightfoot a Mosby man. You told me that Lightfoot's son "was at Garrett's to pick up Booth for Mosby" and I assumed that Lightfoot was a Mosby Ranger.

Page 192 from Tidwell's April 65 is available on Google Books. Also, on p. 191, "As an old man, W. D. Newbill, of Mosby's G Company...told how he and two other Rangers had eaten supper at the Garrett farm with Booth and Herold."

http://books.google.com/books?id=jMK-y-_...ot&f=false

The pages you refer to in Come Retribution are also available on Google Books.

http://books.google.com/books?id=MDNdbLv...ot&f=false