Clara Harris's Bloody Dress

[wsanto]

I hate conceding but I guess that's the right thing to do here. You all have made great points.

I am still confused about Booth's diary entry. If you all are correct then Booth could not have been exaggerating Rathbone's rank for some grand effect as others had claimed.

If you all are correct, then Booth didn't know Rathbone was a military officer until he read it in the papers prior to his diary entry. Interesting. He wouldn't exaggerate a rank that he he learned in the paper.

Can we surmise which papers Jone's brought to the pine thicket? Can we get copies of those articles in order to read what Booth read? And learn was correctly reported and what was incorrect in these article.