#louis weichmann

[lucat13]

this is why i like weichmann so much. where else can you get such quality bullshit

[jamescanningauthor]

what do you think of weichmann and john surratt (if you have any opinions)? i enjoy your takes on the lincoln conspirators and i want to give a shoutout to the #lesserknown

Hi, thank you so much for the ask *checks URL* Mr. President! I always love getting asks, especially about the Conspirators who are of great interest to me!

Surratt. Where to even begin! The one that got away, joined the Pope's army, got recognized by a former schoolmate who somehow was also there, came back to the US, was not found guilty, somehow, and then did a wildly successful lecture tour and the band played "Dixie". Wow. Iconic, swag, disgusting, deplorable, evil, and let his (albeit guilty and horrifically racist) mother hang in his stead! One slick guy. I wish I had half his skill in getting out of scrapes. I utterly despise and loath him. We know so much yet so little about him. Terrible little barnacle of a man. Prospit. Witch of Breath.

Weichmann. Good G-d. He seemed to like exaggerating the amount Mary met with Booth to an inconceivable level. No way did he meet her that many times the day of the assassination! He was busy preparing for it! I'm certain she was very guilty, but this little German boy just looooved the spotlight, didn't he! We know so little, yet so much about him, it's bizarre! So much about his early life and later life, but nothing in between!

[thatwritererinoriordan]

Why was the courtroom in the Manhunt finale shocked when Weichmann said he shared a bed with John Surratt Jr.? In 1865, most people who lived in boarding houses shared beds. A whole bed to yourself was an expensive luxury. No one in that courtroom would have understood it as anything sexual.

The 1860s response to "there was only one bed" was, "Yeah yeah, the one bed, we've all seen it." They wouldn't infer there was boning unless you told them there was boning.

[lucat13]

i was so eager to read the bits of weichmann’s surratt trial testimony bee was sending me that i dropped my phone in my sink and shattered part of the screen protector.

meaning we can now bring weichmann’s death count up to two (mary surratt and my screen protector)

[lucat13]

only on the first page of a true history and already weichmann has described lincoln dying as “his taking off”. i’m so obsessed with his deeply bizarre way of phrasing anything ever

[lucat13]

i know the guy in the war department picture might not be louis but i want to believe

[lucat13]

every so often i think too hard about weichmann and surratt’s friendship and the disintegration of it and i get so distraught i have to sit down

[lucat13]

as always, what the fuck, louis