Decapitation of the Union

[Wild Bill]

I hate to do this, as he and I disagree on so much of the Lincoln Assassination, but John Fazio is essential correct about the Meadville incident, which I wrote about in Last Confederate Heroes as far back as 2002. Meadville was a tank town on what became the Erie Railroad and on the direct route from the oil fields to New York City. Booth could have been there for any umber of reasons.