Louis Weichmann

[Pamela]

After leaving school, Weichmann moved to Pikesville, MD for a few months and assisted his childhood Sunday school teacher, Father Waldron, then went to Little Texas, MD and stayed with a friend, Father William Mahoney. He responded to an ad for a teacher at St Matthew's Institute for Boys and moved to D.C. and began work as the school principal on Jan 2, 1863. He slept at the school and took meals at a nearby boarding house. Sometime during the next year, Weichmann moved to a boarding house, presumably Purnell's and in early Jan. 1864 got his job at the War Dept.

John Surratt began to visit Louis during his stint at St Matthew's and in his book, Weichmann described his friendship with a very different Surratt in the pre-Booth days. They decided to visit their alma mater, St Charles, on April 2, 1863, and afterwards visited Father Mahoney in Little Texas where they both met Sainte Marie, who later turned John in to authorities in Italy.