“We had a regular established line from Washington to the Potomac, and I being the only unmarried man on the route, I had most of the hard riding to do. I devised various ways to carry the dispatches—sometimes in the heels of my boots, sometimes between the planks of the buggy. Never in my life did I come across a more stupid set of detectives than those employed by the U.S. government. They seemed to have no idea whatever in how to search men.”
JOHN SURRATT, DECEMBER 6, 1870, LECTURE AT ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND
JOHN SURRATT, DECEMBER 6, 1870, LECTURE AT ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND
