(07-16-2014, 10:56 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote: I googled "south side of the Capital" and besides Oldroyd I came up with Protecting President Lincoln by Frederick Hatch. Here are his sources.
Chapter 13 - p. 118
"He [Booth] was seen riding hard on the south side of the Capital, heading for the Navy Yard Bridge..."1
1. Roscoe, p. 131; James O. Hall, John Wilkes Booth Escape Route (Clinton, MD: Surratt Society, 2000), pp, 1-4.
On page 131 of
The Web of Conspiracy by Theodore Roscoe (referenced above) it states:
"On the south side of the Capitol, a horseman cantering toward midtown was passed by another horseman going hell-bent toward the outlying Navy Yard. Perhaps the hard-riding horseman was John Wilkes Booth, perhaps not."
This descriptive, yet less than definitive, part of the text has no source for it.
A Man On The South Side Of The Capitol
