Decapitation of the Union

[John Fazio]

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.

Wild Bill:

Do not hate to do it; do it with alacrity, with enthusiasm, because truth is more important than orientation, more important than partisanship. Furthermore, our differences are molehills. Where mountains are concerned, we are on the same page. As far as I am concerned, you have only to accept one truth and your entire outlook will change, and it is that "at every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past". When you have accepted that truth (IF you accept it), that alone will be new. The rest is merely arrangement.

John