David E Herold His True Confession

Who is really buried in John Wilkes Booth's grave? This fast-paced short novel by a distinguished Southern scholar retells the dramatic events of spring 1865 from the point of view of one of Booth's friends and co-conspirators, a twenty-two-year-old Washingtonian named David Herold. Based very closely on the historical record, "David E Herold His True Confession" stakes out controversial territory over which American historians have been known to come to blows. Note: readers who enjoyed the Robert Redford film "The Conspirator" will be fascinated (and disturbed) to learn yet another side of the story. It's neither the one Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, publicized at the time, nor the version your high school history teacher taught you.