Booth's women

[STS Lincolnite]

(05-07-2018 01:41 PM)Jenny Wrote:  Baker does make it sound that way! It’s interesting that the transcript you posted mentioned that the lady specifically *wasn’t* there to satisfy morbid curiosity.

Stone: "A lady accompanied by two naval officers came on board, to visit the ship, and not to gratify a morbid curiosity."

Baker: "Upon my return, I was greatly surprised and indignant, to find persons of high position, and some of secession proclivities, around the dead body, the coarse shroud parted at the seam, and a lady at that moment cutting off a lock of the black, curled, and beautiful hair."

I suppose both could be true at the same time. It's certainly possible that although the lady came on board for other reasons (and not to satisfy a morbid curiosity) once there, and the opportunity presented itself (or was created), she and the others decided to seize it.