Louis Weichmann

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Pamela - What I will be sending you is the Abel piece entitled "A History of the Trial of Mrs. Mary Surratt as Told to Me by a Mr. Lewis Weichman at the Time of President Lincoln's Assassination" - exactly what you requested.

Interesting lines include: '...he told me all about the trial and how he was forced to testify against her unwillingly...he also said he was writing a book on the trial. In fact, two books. He had finished one in manuscript form and asked if I wanted to read it...he was writing this book to ease his conscience and set the record straight. If the book had been published it would have created quite a furor in Washington and the Country. ...and I only listened to him and read the manuscript only to please him. In his book he claimed that Mrs. Surratt was innocent. Why was Weichman not indited [sic] the same as Mrs. Surrat, as he was a spectator at these meetings...? '

The rest of the manuscript is some really bad history on the war, Stanton, Weichmann, KKK, and other assorted subjects. I would like to know about the second manuscript, which is said to have been on Weichmann accusing the Pope and the Catholic Church for the war.