Booth, the Garretts and an Invitation to Tea

[Wild Bill]

Well, gang, all of history is remembrances that often contradict each other. You pays your money and you takes your choice, as they say. When it comes to stories like the Garretts' and Lightfoot's, family remembrances and personal memoirs from later in life, and one of the commentators is an experienced army intelligence officer who retires as a Brigadier General whom has spent a life making such choices and the other side is people like us (put yourself in here with me, if you like, or not), an amateur like me tends to stick with Tidwell--especially after I spent several weeks going through his papers in detail and cataloging them for the James O Hall Library. If you have not done likewise, I would suggest you do before making off-hand comment about his research, knowledge and experience in this field. Just sayin'