John Surratt's real parents?

[LincolnToddFan]

Oh, I definitely don't think she was praying for forgiveness...by her "intentions" she was referring to the success of the conspirators for what she believed they were going to accomplish...a dramatic reversal of fortune for the Cause. I remember reading that she was overhead grumbling about all the celebrating that was being done in the streets of the capital after the fall of Richmond. She is reported to have condemned these "proud and wicked people" or something along those lines, and prophesied that their joy would be turning to grief very soon.

[I believe Lincoln's actions would have been governed by whether or not he was actually kidnapped and how many Union soldiers and others were killed or wounded in the process of preventing his abduction or rescuing him.

I can not conceive of Lincoln signing Mary Surratt's death warrant but I don't believe he would have actually pardoned her if that is construed to mean he would have quashed a guilty verdict.]// quote

Tom, I quite agree!

[Toia and Laurie, until I read Kate Larson's book I would have agreed 100% with both of you. Now if someone asks me if she knew of Booth's change of plan I would say, "I don't know, but I am open to the possibility." My question is, I guess, a geography question as I do not know the area well]//

Hi Roger,

I have Kate Larson's book stashed away somewhere. I read it quite awhile ago and want to read it again...but I can't remember where I put it!

So you feel that the Larsen book does indeed provide a smoking gun for Mary's guilt on knowing that a murder was planned for that night? I don't remember the particulars of the change of route info, but I always assumed that she knew the "shooting irons" were in fact weapons that the conspirators felt would be needed to successfully accomplish the kidnapping. She knew -or assumed-that AL would be surrounded by soldiers armed to the teeth, as he was when he entered Richmond.