Conspirators' "Supplies" - Did They are Didn't They?!

[BettyO]

(08-23-2012 05:10 AM)MaddieM Wrote:  What if there was no higher authority. And just plain old ego involved on the part of JWB.

I've always thought that there WAS a "higher authority" - Powell in prison said that there was; i.e. someone high up in the Confederate hierarchy - and I think that "someone" was Judah P. Benjamin. Surratt worked for him; more than likely Powell as well, once he left Mosby's unit. Booth may have been persuasive and had illustrious connections - but so did Powell. He was second cousin to General John Brown Gordon.