A Man On The South Side Of The Capitol

[Linda Anderson]

(07-23-2014 09:21 PM)Dave Taylor Wrote:  

(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.

Thanks, Dave. Do you or anyone else have Mr. Hall's John Wilkes Booth Escape Route to see what he has to say about the mysterious horseman?