Robert Arnold's Book The Conspiracy Between John Wilkes Booth and the Union Army

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Dr. Arnold also argues that the description of the man in the barn's injured ankle could not have been describing the appearance of the kind of injury that Booth had. Dr. Arnold, a retired Navy surgeon and former coroner, contends that there would not have been the described amount of bruising and swelling from an ankle fracture.

Does Dr. Arnold include the description that one of the three returning Confederate veterans who were with Booth and Herold on the ferry crossing the Rappahannock River into Port Royal gave later? It follows the same line as that of the autopsy report as to the swelling, etc.