A Man On The South Side Of The Capitol

[Dave Taylor]

(07-16-2014 10:56 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  I googled "south side of the Capital" and besides Oldroyd I came up with Protecting President Lincoln by Frederick Hatch. Here are his sources.

Chapter 13 - p. 118
"He [Booth] was seen riding hard on the south side of the Capital, heading for the Navy Yard Bridge..."1

1. Roscoe, p. 131; James O. Hall, John Wilkes Booth Escape Route (Clinton, MD: Surratt Society, 2000), pp, 1-4.

On page 131 of The Web of Conspiracy by Theodore Roscoe (referenced above) it states:

"On the south side of the Capitol, a horseman cantering toward midtown was passed by another horseman going hell-bent toward the outlying Navy Yard. Perhaps the hard-riding horseman was John Wilkes Booth, perhaps not."

This descriptive, yet less than definitive, part of the text has no source for it.