Where was John Surratt on April 14, 1865 ?

[RJNorton]

(03-31-2017 11:18 AM)loetar44 Wrote:  Interesting! Was Booth only at 2 pm at Surratt's boardinghouse? No THREE visits that day, but ONE !!! No mention of the first (?) visit in the morning (after his haircut by Charles Wood in Booker & Stewart's barber shop).

I think most authors assume there had to be a morning visit. They base this on Booth's later behavior. For example, Art Loux writes that Atzerodt was orginally assigned to go to Surrattsville.

Art writes:

"Booth did connect with Herold sometime in the morning, for he sent Herold to tell Atzerodt to go to Surrattsville and 'see after' items, certainly the carbines, he had left there."

Art says Booth later stopped by the boardinghouse in the morning and chatted with Mary Surratt. During this conversation he learned that she was planning on going to Surrattsville that afternoon. So Booth gave her the assignment originally given to Atzerodt. Plus he would go and get his field glasses and return to the boardinghouse in the afternoon and ask Mary to take them to Lloyd. At some point Booth met up with Atzerodt and told him there was now no need for him to go to Surrattsville.