What Was The Role of David Herold

[Jim Garrett]

Thanks Laurie for starting this thread and thank you Roger for laying out the ifs and wheres. I think I remember that someone thought maybe it was never Herolds intent to stay with Powell and that it was his original intent to ditch Powell. Was it the idea that 2 had a better chance than 3 of not getting caught? Were they to meet up further along, after the victorious reception in the South?

Not that there was any exchange between prisoners, but I bet Powell's eyes were throwing some mighty big daggers (or maybe Rio Grand Camp Knives) at Herold.