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

[Laurie Verge]

Ray Neff and Len Guttridge followed that trail for awhile. At first, they had Dansville confused with a small crossroads in Maryland, about three miles or so from T.B., of the same name (now extinct). Guttridge contacted me about thirty years ago and was flabbergasted that I knew of the Maryland village.

It was practically next door to Andrew Jackson Gwynn's plantation, Pleasant Springs. Gwynn was in the Confederacy in a variety of positions so far as I can tell, so I can see where they might have confused the Maryland village near him with what turned out later to be Dansville, NY.