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This is a wonderfully detailed account of everyone connected to the Lincoln assasination. If your'e not a professional historian, snippy, you should be.

I've been to Ford's Theater National Historical Site and it's really interesting. We always buy books, literature, in the National Parks bookstores, but there wasn't anything there as comprehensively put together as this. I bought books there and didn't learn nearly as much.

One of those prisoner masks was on display in the Ford's Theater Museum. No wonder Paine was "traumatized", it scared the fire out of me. And I have no sympathy for Paine, the account in the link you gave about his attack in the Seward house was vicious. His gun misfired when he aimed at Frederick Seward's head, and then he went to pistol-whipping, knife-slashing and stabbing. If his gun hadn't misfired at the start, he probably would have killed several, instead of leaving five wounded who recovered.

John Surratt certainly made out like a bandit; fleeing to Canada, then Europe and finally tried in 1867 after the hysteria had died down. He walked after his wife had swung from a rope.

Lincoln's bodyguard, John Parker of the Metropolitan Police Force, had left his post.

Don't you know, it must have been rough to live with that? And it hadn't been clear to me that if all the designated victims had been killed, the U.S. government would have been thrown into chaos as to swearing in a new president, and who knows have that would have come out.

Excellent account, and is a list of the Foxhole threads posted somewhere?

Thank you. We don't write them, we just pulled them together from researching material already available.

We read and search and pick and choose until we come up with enough material to cover a subject without being too much material for our readers to digest in a day. That's why we give the educational links at the end of the first post so you all can read more later or see where we got the info.

There is only one spot for a linkable source so other places we pull material from are always listed as additional educational sources if we've garnered info from more than one place.

Most documentation on the web is lacking in pictures, or if they do have pics they have very few so that is sometimes a chore hunting down pics that go with the stories.

There is no way we could write a daily thread, takes long enough just to put one together for each and every day! LOL.

I'm glad you found the links. LOL. You can always just select the FReeper Foxhole button on FR's front page or VETSCor to find the Foxhole links.

I plan to have a list of linkable Foxhole threads available on our anniversary this year so folks can cut and paste the link or save the anniversary thread in their bookmarks to make it easy.