The Mudd family, David Herold and the Sothorons.

[Jim Garrett]

Hopefully someday we may make more of the puzzle pieces fit. Williamson was an insider, from the right family. Was was related to many of the big movers and shakers in Virginia. Col. Francis Smith (VMI superintendent) was his roomate for all 4 years at West Point. Don't know why he didn't graduate, but he served in the Eng. Corp, so he was no dummy. He runs into the dragnet at Bleak Hill, and bails out Capt. Murray Forbes Taylor, (my grt aunt's grandfather). Taylor is en-route to see his brother John. John was in the 9th Va. and Murray had been ADC to Gen. A.P. Hill. When Hill was killed, Taylor along with Capt Richard Adams, joined the staff of R.E. Lee until the close of the war.

So could Col. Williamson have been trying to round up two of his former VMI students, Murray and his brother John, to assist in finding Booth and handle a bad situation with whatever the circumstances required? "Come Retribution" has a good case. The missing puzzle pieces will most likely remain missing.

Merry Christmas