Booth's visit to the Surratt Boarding House after the assassination

[John Stanton]

Laurie.Yes, the trains from Richmond could roll as far North as Hamilton's Crossing.(At the southern end of the Battlefield. Tracks north were removed during the battle.) Elizabeth Van Lew was shipping escaped Union prisoners that far in Feb of '65. I would guess that other trains stopped at Milford - they had freight handling facilities. Tidwell told me that there was a train there, with a full head of steam -always. Waiting for the abducted Lincoln. If that was the plan, up until then, then Booth was sticking with it. A train from there would not have taken him to Mosby (Everything went South.) That line is still the main N-S RR track today.