Surratt - "WHo" was he?

[Craig Hipkins]

Interesting. It is my opinion that Booth did not have a second in command. He was a narcissist and usually people with that affliction do not care about the niceties and advantages of a military structure. Surratt appears on the surface to be Booth's second only because he was intelligent. The other players in Booth's plot (at least on the surface) appeared to be either dim witted, cowardly, or just plain unmotivated. Surrratt was of a higher caliber in the cranial capacity department.