Thomas F. Harney

[RJNorton]

(07-13-2015 09:30 PM)SSlater Wrote:  I'd like to change your last sentence, from "Some Lincoln Books", to "Most Lincoln Books", don't mention Harney. anywhere.)

John, you are definitely correct. I should have said it that way.

John Fazio talks about Harney in his book, and so does Ed Steers in Blood on the Moon. Ed writes, "While news of the skirmish appeared in the Washington Daily Morning Chronicle on April 11, Harney's capture and imprisonment in the Old Capitol Prison was not mentioned. Still, Booth could have found out about the failure of Harney's operation through any number of sources in the city. The fall of Richmond and Lee's surrender may well have caused Booth to conclude that capturing Lincoln no longer had a strategic purpose." (The thinking expressed by Dr. Steers is also one of the reasons why I feel that Mary Surratt could have figured out kidnapping was no longer Booth's plan.)