Useless, useless

[Dave Taylor]

This account by Doherty has very little in the way of truth to it. This is one of the things I've been working on with my Garrett presentation. I'm fortunate to have many, many accounts written by Garretts, Baker, Conger, Doherty, and the other soldiers. The difficulty has been assimilating the differing accounts together to establish the most likely series of events and actions.

From this excerpt from Doherty, the only things that are truthful is that Davy surrendered himself to him (technically he surrendered to Baker, who gave him over to Doherty) and that Doherty did enter the barn after Booth was shot. Baker was the first to enter and he and Doherty together pulled Booth out.