St. Peter's or Horsehead? Is the Stage Route the Answer?

[Wild Bill]

There was no fight at Benedict. For most of the war the plain outside of town was the training camp for four or five regiments of Black volunteers (USCT), called Camp Stanton, I believe. Ironic.

Tidwell wrote three articles for the Courier on the Mechanicsville fight the night that Booth and Harold heard shots from (see William A. Tidwell, "April 15, 1865," Surratt Courier, 22 (April-May-June 1997), 6-10, 5-10, 4-9.