Louis Weichmann

[Eva Elisabeth]

(09-07-2015 11:38 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(09-07-2015 10:19 AM)HerbS Wrote:  Do you all think that Weichmann could have been a counter agent?I do,or am I all wet?

Excellent question, Herb! Was he trying to work for both sides? Just speculation on my part - I think the fact that he didn't move out of the Surratt boardinghouse possibly says something about what he may have been doing. I put myself in his shoes, and in my way of thinking, if I were really 100% a Union man (as he said he was in his book), I do not think I would have been comfortable living there. He gives an explanation for why he continued to stay there in his book. Do I believe it? I am not sure - maybe yes, maybe no.

Roger, I wonder the same. Unless I were a spy (or a wannabe spy), if I were a Union man, I wouldn't have felt any comfortable. I am reading Weichmann's book, but haven't yet arrived at his explanation - and I'm so curious. Would you mind to share? I apologize at the more knowledgeable posters on this topic and thread to whom this might be a "basic"! Thanks!