As usual, another great piece, Walter! While I'm not a fan of the supposed, "Great Emancipator," simply because he didn't give a shit about Black folk (we were merely a strategic football for his ass -- as the Douglass debates attest), though he didn't deserve a bullet to the head.

I lived in Southern MD in PG county for some years and know the Surratts Museum was "a safe house for the Confederate underground which flourished in Southern Maryland. It was the country home of Mary Surratt, first woman to be executed by the U.S. government after being found guilty of conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. " https://www.visitmaryland.org/escape-route-john-wilkes-booth

Check it out...