What Was The Role of David Herold

[Linda Anderson]

You are welcome, John. I am also my own respondent!

I originally wrote, "According to the Daily National Republican dated April, 18, 1865, Tayloe's servant, Ben, gave a statement that he saw Powell run out of the house after Powell attacked Seward. I have not been able to find the paper's "extra of Saturday."

The National Intelligencer of April 16 and 17 ran an article called "The Assault on Gov. Seward" which I think is the same article that was in the Daily National Republican extra of Saturday, April 15. It makes the same mistake as the April 15 Daily National Republican in stating that it was Major Seward, not William H. Bell, who came out of the house while Powell was still there and told the Tayloes' servant Ben to cry "murder."