Louis Weichmann

[tom82baur]

As someone whose interest in the Civil War and the Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy was restoked by the serendipitous discovery of Weichmann's book, I can't tell you how amazed and fascinated I have become with the information that continues to appear on a daily basis in this thread. I am in awe of the level of scholarship and the prodigious research that is involved in turning up such arcane ----- and relevant!---- information after 150 years. Every day! Simply phenomenal work. Don't stop! Please. And thank you. Wow.

I am myself of two minds on Weichmann. Wait. Make that three. He is a 'Union Man doing his duty'; he is a clumsy 'wannabe' Conspirator, never quite accepted by, but used by, the REAL conspirators as a kind of 'useful idiot' who can't ride or use a pistol, but DOES work in the Commissary of Prisoners Office with access to info they may be interested in (the exchange of prisoners is given, at least initially, as a primary reason for the Lincoln plot(s)) ; or he may be a counter-intelligence agent, keeping tabs on one of the innumerable plots that were rumored about in Washington City at the time. OK, let's make it FOUR minds: which would be some combination of the three above. Since no smoking gun has been discovered ----yet---- , the jury is still out. It is complicated. Great stuff. I know I am not the only person with an interest here, based on the remarkable number of views that this thread has generated.