Identification of Booth's body

[Rob Wick]

Quote:Their commander, Everton Conger (whom Rob could/should write a book about), was suffering from the effects of numerous war injuries.

Unfortunately, there's not enough archival material out there to do justice to the subject, although I do toy with it once in a while.

I found something just now, however, that's too good not to share. It has nothing to do with Conger. I am going through some of the papers of Albert J. Beveridge from the Library of Congress. My next Tarbell article will be a comparison between Tarbell and Beveridge. In March of 1923, speaking of another Lincoln author to William Herndon's writing partner, Jesse Weik, Beveridge, who had a rather acidic tongue, said, "I suspect that he is one of that curious class who starts out with a theory and tries to find something to sustain the theory, refusing all facts that conflict with it."

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Best
Rob