What Was The Role of David Herold

[Laurie Verge]

Art,

Thank you so much for hopping in on this one. Your book, John Wilkes Booth Day by Day, will be a wonderful addition to all of our libraries when the update is complete. Your reference to Atzerodt's riding the trolley to the Navy Yard after the assassination makes a lot of sense to me now - when it never did before. Your speculation that Herold was to get Powell to the bridge is also workable, since most of Powell's D.C. travels seem to have centered around the opposite (northern) side of the city and the Navy Yard Bridge is across town (south). The only hitch for me is that I think Powell intended to head north to the Bransons in Baltimore.