Mosby's Men in Southern Maryland

[Bill Richter]

I refer you all to Kate Mason, "A True Story of the Capture and Death of John Wilkes Booth," Northern Neck Historical Magazine, 13 (Dec., 1963), 1237-39 (yeah, I know she is a relative, but she wrote a bang-up article).

I know this rest is self serving, but you all ought to read my Last Confederate Heroes (Copy in the JOH Library) which has this Welford Mason incident and answers to several other questions that have come up in this forum (and others).

I realize that many disparage the idea of an historical novel, but this one is very good history to boot, if I may say so myself. I reference several bibliographic items that rarely appear in more noted and popularized works to explain many puzzling things in Booth's ideas, plots, and his shooting of Lincoln and especially in the escape, about which my colleague and friend Rick Smith and I have several other notions that are not "usual."