Smoot

[JB Banning]

Laurie,

In "The unwritten history of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln" (thank you BettyO for the link to all those wonderful free books on Lincoln) Smoot says that Atzerodt told him that arrangements had been made with a man named Hunt (1 T) for three horses that would be needed by men making a fast trip from Washington. From what you have said in the past this Hunt sounds like your great grandfather. Smoot assumed that Atzerodt and 2 others would need those horses.

Does your family's oral traditions support this account? Was your great grandfather supposed to supply THREE horses?

Joe