A Confederate Officer's Opinion of the Assassination

[RJNorton]

Laurie sends this link along with the following comment:

"Many Confederate prisoners may have despised Booth for doing a cowardly (as they saw it) deed instead of entering the military and fighting for four long years like many of them had. Also, I'm sure that many of the prisoners feared reprisals and revenge from their Union captors."

https://ghostsofbaltimore.org/2013/11/14...assination