Atzerodt Confession

[JMadonna]

Thanks guys both answers make sense. As you know the recorder of Atzerodt's confession only recorded his answers to questions - not the questions. Therefore the confession is choppy not knowing when one answer starts and another begins.

The line before the Baily & Barnes reference reads:

Plenty of parties in Charles County knew of the kidnapping affair.One of the men named Charles Yates, knew all about it, he went to Richmond during the winter he was to row the Presdt & party over.

So its probably safe to assume he was answering about who was involved within Charles county.

BTW I found Barnes & Baily's statements in The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence - p.96 -97

- Roger might make a fun exercise to have people guess the questions based on the answers. Sort of a Johnny Carson "Carnac" routine.

John, I would say Powell's estimate of that they didn't have "the one-half of them" would be the most accurate since he met them in New York with Booth. I doubt Davy Herold could count to 35 and Booth's total to Chester was pure braggadocio.