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John Stanton · 05-10-2013, 10:49 PM

(05-08-2013 08:21 AM)scldrgnfly Wrote: The article didn't appear right away on my phone. Oops! I guess I am wrong about Thomas A. Jones' death??? BUT to tell the truth, the picture there doesn't really look like the picture in Thomas A. Jones' memoirs does it? The picture in the memoirs, to me, looks like he was always a rather thin individual.

Cool article!

LOL, Betty!!! I love this!! The past really DOES look like,a different country!!! That is a GREAT find, Betty!!

And this discussion is GREAT, too!

Does anybody wonder about the fact that they kept Booth and Herold lingering in the "pine thicket" about a week and the x-Mosby/ Confederate dudes just happened to be about on the other side?? We already know how much "The Oath of Allegiance" meant to them. Meaning, Mosby's crew was always "skedadaling (sp.?)" weren't they?

Did they just not want Booth to be caught in Maryland? And to tell you truth, how smart would it really have been to have taken Lincoln towards Richmond with all of the Union troops and Generals on that side of the Potomac? Regardless of the fact of Richmond's "imminent" fall...which of course had become a fete a' complet, by the time JWB's crew had made their move.

Ha! Ha! They must not have had the Internet or the Surratt Society, ...or the RJ Norton Lincoln Symposium on their trail!!

scldrgnfly: I have looked into "what the dudes on the VA side of there river were doing, in this time frame." About 1 April, Richmond called some of their "Secret Line" agents to Richmond for a meeting. It is believed that the meeting was to brief the agents about the intended arrival of Lincoln, at the river. That meeting included Thomas Jones, Benjamin Grymes, Charles Cawood, and others. Jones came back quickly (His cover was that he went so as to collect back pay.) As for Grymes, I don't know where he was. Cawood stopped off in Manchester (Town across the James from Richmond) to visit with his recent bride. So when Jones signaled for help, there was no one there. Think about Jones' instructions when Booth did cross. Jones sent him to a "tree by a bridge", and hoped that someone would find him. If no one shows up, see Mrs Quesenberry - I THINK she can help.
Look at Herold's description on the crossing "We came out of the Nanjemoy at sundown, crossed within 300 yards of a gunboat, and landed on Mathias Point." If that is true, he landed at Cawood's Camp,- - - and there was no one there. He then went down around the Point and found Gambo Creek.