Louis Weichmann

[Pamela]

I'll take a wild guess that The Days are Yet Dark deals with Louis Weichmann's guilty conscience due to his part, his betrayals, in causing the execution of an innocent woman. Ewald, in one of the Courier articles, said that Dr. George rediscovered Louis's marriage, since it had been reported in the Herald at the time of his death.

I'm reading John Surratt the Lincoln Assassin Who Got Away by Michael Schein and he references the Isacsson Dissertation, Guy W. Moore and, of course, the "fabulously strange St. Marie" (whose source was Surratt) as his sources for stating that Weichmann stole dispatches, from John Surratt, p30, "It is highly credible...." from his place of employment and gave them to rebel courier and friend, John Surratt. I don't have either of these works. Has anyone read them and know what their sources are?

As far as I can discover, the sources for the seemingly endlessly repeated allegations that Weichmann stole dispatches for the Confederacy are: John Surratt, the Rockville lecture, Booth to Arnold, Surratt to St. Marie, and researchers Isacsson and Moore. Is that it?

Schein applies these allegations to their logical conclusion, p31, "If this is true, Weichmann not only stole sensitive documents and gave them to his dear friend, the Rebel spy, but he actually opened the doors of the War Department in Washington to Surratt for late night plunder! Just in case there is any doubt, Weichmann's action would constitute espionage in time of war--a hanging offense."