Atzerodt Confession

[JMadonna]

(02-20-2017 07:50 PM)JMadonna Wrote:  AHA! I think I got it.

When Atzerodt described Wood he said: Wood is a tall man with black hair; straight. He is a strong stout-made man; no hair on his face; rather poor; he is rather a good-looking man. I can’t remember faces or features well enough to describe them.

If he couldn't remember faces or features he would not have been able to remember Powell at the earlier meeting at Gautier's because Booth introduced him as "Mosby".

Looking through Steer's The Evidence - there is a man actually named Lewis Mosby who was nicknamed the colonel. He seems to have been a bartender at the Simpson House.

This may well have been the man Atzerodt saw at Gautiers NOT Lewis Powell. If so he was the only man in that group to escape!