JWB In Mercy Street

[Thomas Thorne]

John Wilkes Booth met with "Mercy Street" regular Frank Stringfellow on tonight's episode. The prospect of Booth being Booth as early as Aug 1862 at a Union Army hospital in Alexandria is irresistible.

It is fascinating that contemporary Civil War dramatizations are more biased toward the Union than the the pre WW2 Civil War dramas were toward the Confederacy.

Has anyone besides me seen the only "Our Gang/Little Rascals" feature film "General Spanky"-1936 -In which Spanky assumed the duties of a Confederate officer as he and his playmates helped the South?

Tom