Oddities of the Lincoln assassination

[Jim Garrett]

(11-18-2014 09:53 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(11-18-2014 08:45 AM)Jim Garrett Wrote:  half a block from Ford's and where Mary Surratt attended mass and Father Jacob Walters was installed for decades.

One thing I have read about him is that he kept writing that all of the members of the military commission had died violent deaths and/or committed suicide. In response, many years later, most of the military commission members put out a declaration that they were alive and happy.

Edward Doherty was recalled to Washington from service on the plains for charges of conduct unbecoming of an officer. He was dismissed from the army. It was during that time that he met Catherine Gautier. Years after Doherty's death, his widow received a letter from on of Doherty's scouts on the plains saying he was never derelict in his duties and always conducted himself properly. The writer was none other than Buffalo Bill Cody.