I have got to read this book..

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Joan Chaconas has been keeping me updated on revisionist history. She has found an old book (early 20th-century, I believe) about a gentleman named Gould, who evidently had stories to tell related to characters in the Lincoln assassination story. I'll get more details and share them, but so far, here are a couple:

When the "Booth mummy" was supposedly making the rounds in the carnival circles, one of the couples who owned him apparently slept in their small carnival wagon - one on each side of the mummy. Given the toxic chemicals in that carcass at the time, I wonder what their ailments might have been?

This "factoid" I love! The book credits Dr. Mudd with discovering that mosquitoes carry the dreaded yellow fever strain. Walter Reed must be spinning in his grave.