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5. Clarke, The Unlocked Book, 43.
6. Rhodehamel and Taper, Right or Wrong, 4.
7. Clarke, The Unlocked Book, 31.
8. Ibid., 34, 102.
9. Reck, A. Lincoln, 63.
10. Ibid.
11. Clarke, The Unlocked Book, 56–57.
12. Ibid., 57.
13. Ibid., 57, 73, 91.
14. Chicago Tribune, April 25, 1865.
15. New York Times, April 21, 1865.
16. Boston Daily Advertiser, April 26, 1865; Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, 169.
17. New York Times, April 25, 1865.
18. Ibid., April 26, 1865.
19. Springfield Illinois State Journal, May 5, 1865.
20. Boston Daily Advertiser, April 26, 1865.
21. Charles and Ellen Tree Kean letter, May 4, 1865, Sol Smith collection, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.
22. Boston Daily Advertiser, April 26, 1865.
23. Searcher, The Farewell to Lincoln, 126–27.
24. Boston Daily Advertiser, April 26, 1865.
25. Undated, untitled newspaper clipping, Ford’s Theater archive.
26. New York Times, April 25, 1865.
27. Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, 166.
28. Springfield Illinois State Journal, May 3, 1865.
29. New York Times, April 26, 1865.
30. Chicago Tribune, April 25, 1865; War of the Rebellion, ser. 1, XLVI, pt. 3, 952, 965.
31. Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, 166.
32. Searcher, The Farewell to Lincoln, 134.
33. New York Times, April 26, 1865.
34. Boston Daily Advertiser, April 26, 1865.
35. Ibid.; New York Times, April 26, 1865.
27. The Bad Hand
1. Louis Savage affidavit, Edward P. Doherty collection, Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield; Pittman, The Assassination of President Lincoln, 91; Tidwell, Hall, and Gaddy, Come Retribution, 476.
2. Weichmann, A True History of the Assassination, 216.
3. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 433.
4. New York Times, April 29, 1865.
5. Untitled newspaper clipping, June 10, 1865, Ford’s Theater archives; Pittman, The Assassination of President Lincoln, 91.
6. Pittman, The Assassination of President Lincoln, 91.
7. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 433.
8. Untitled newspaper clipping, June 10, 1865, Ford’s Theater archive.
9. William McQuade statement, Edward P. Doherty collection, Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield.
10. New York Times, January 18, 1895.
11. Pittman, The Assassination of President Lincoln, 91–92; Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 434.
12. “The Death of John Wilkes Booth, 1865,” 3, online edition, http://www.ibiscom.com/booth.htm.
13. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 434.
14. Ibid.
15. Washington Evening Star, April 28, 1865.
16. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 435–36.
17. William H. Garrett, “True Story of the Capture of John Wilkes Booth,” Confederate Veteran 29 (1921): 129.
18. Ibid., 129–30.
19. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 436.
20. Pittman, The Assassination of President Lincoln, 92.
21. David Barker statement, Edward P. Doherty collection, Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield.
22. Washington Evening Star, April 28, 1865.
23. Pittman, The Assassination of President Lincoln, 94.
24. Herman Newgarten statement, Edward P. Doherty collection, Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield; John W. Millington, “A Cavalryman’s Account of the Chase and Capture of John Wilkes Booth,” online edition, Abraham Lincoln Research Site, 3.
25. Garrett, “True Story of the Capture,” 129.
26. Pittman, The Assassination of President Lincoln, 95.
27. Ibid., 92.
28. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 436.
29. David Barker statement, Edward P. Doherty collection, Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield.
30. Weichmann, A True History of the Assassination, 216–17.
31. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 436.
32. Kubicek, ‘The Case of the Mad Hatter,” 712.
33. Pittman, The Assassination of President Lincoln, 92.
34. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 436, 437.
35. Ibid., 437.
36. Ibid., 440.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. Frank G. Carpenter, “John Wilkes Booth: A Talk with the Man That Captured Him,” Lippincott’s Magazine, September 1887, 451; New York Times, May 18, 1865.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.; Bryan, Great American Myth, 269.
42. L. K. B. Holloway reminiscence, John Wilkes Booth file, Espionage Items collection, Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond.
43. Ibid.
44. Millington, “A Cavalryman’s Account,” 3.
45. Pittman, The Assassination of President Lincoln, 95.
46. Millington, “A Cavalryman’s Account,” 3.
47. Roscoe, Web of Conspiracy, 401.
48. Bryan, Great American Myth, 269.
49. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 439.
50. Bryan, The Great American Myth, 270.
51. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 439.
52. Ibid.
53. Chicago Tribune, May 3, 1865.
54. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 441; Goodrich, The Day Dixie Died, 53.
55. Goodrich, The Day Dixie Died, 53.
56. Horace Bushnell testimony, Boston Corbett Pension files, National Archives.
28. The Hate of Hate
1. Washington Evening Star, April 28, 1865.
2. Ibid.; New York Times, May 1, 1865; New Orleans Times, May 3, 1865.
3. Clarke, The Unlocked Book, 128.
4. Newark (N.J.) Daily Advertiser, May 1, 1865.
5. Asia Booth Clarke letter, May 22, 1865, to “dear Jean,” Ford’s Theater archive.
6. Springfield Daily Illinois State Journal, May 4, 1865.
7. New York Times, May 2, 1865.
8. Washington Evening Star, April 27, 1865; Chicago Tribune, April 27, 1865; Lattimer and Alford, “Eyewitness to History,” 97.
9. Chicago Tribune, April 28, 1865.
10. Washington Evening Star, July 7, 1865; Roscoe, Web of Conspiracy, 412–13; Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 444.
11. Roscoe, Web of Conspiracy, 413.
12. Washington Evening Star, July 7, 1865.
13. Byron B. Johnson, pamphlet, “Boston Corbett, Who Shot John Wilkes Booth,” Rare Books and Special Collections, Library of Congress.
14. Johnson, Abraham Lincoln and Boston Corbett, 38.
15. Johnson, “Boston Corbett, Who Shot John Wilkes Booth.”
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.; Washington Evening Star, April 27, 1865; Langsdorf, “The Mad Hatter of Kansas.”
18. Bryan, The Great American Myth, 270.
19. Abilene (Kans.) Journal, February 3, 1887.
20. Newark (N.J.) Daily Advertiser, May 1, 1865.
21. Baltimore American, May 3, 1865.
22. New York Times, April 28, 1865.
23. Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1865.
24. Peskin, “Putting the ‘Baboon’ to Rest,” 28.
25. Menge and Shimrak, Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm, 158; Fusz diary, April 30.
26. Chicago Tribune, April 28, 1865.
27. Hanchett, The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies, 125.
28. Turner, Beware the People Weeping, 121.
29. Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1865.
30. Ibid.
31. Washington Evening Star, April 28, 1865.
32. New York Times, May 2, 1865.
33. Washington Evening Star, May 1, 1865.
34. Charles O. Paullin, “The Navy and the Booth Conspirators,” Journal of t
he Illinois State Historical Society, September 1940, 275.
35. John Frederick May, “The Positive Identification of the Body of John Wilkes Booth,” online edition, http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/1510/booth.txt.
36. Roscoe, Web of Conspiracy, 413.
37. Munroe, “Recollections of Lincoln’s Assassination,” 432.
38. May, “The Positive Identification of the Body.”
39. Washington Evening Star, April 28, 1865; Steers, Blood on the Moon, 263.
40. Munroe, “Recollections of Lincoln’s Assassination,” 431–32.
41. New York Times, May 1, 1865; William H. Townsend, Lincoln and His Wife’s Home Town (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929), 371.
42. Chicago Tribune, April 28, 1865.
29. The Heart of Israel
1. Undated, unnamed newspaper clipping, “Mob Attacked Gloater over Lincoln Death,” Michigan State Archives, Lansing; Power, Abraham Lincoln, 71; Peskin, “Putting the ‘Baboon’ to Rest,” 28.
2. Peskin, “Putting the ‘Baboon’ to Rest,” 28.
3. Power, Abraham Lincoln, 59.
4. Chicago Tribune, 26, 1865.
5. Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, 321.
6. Chicago Tribune, April 26, 1865.
7. Power, Abraham Lincoln, 63; Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, 321; Mary Louise Coffin memoir, Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
8. Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, 173.
9. Untitled newspaper clipping, May 1, 1865, Ford’s Theater archive.
10. Ozias Hatch letter, April 27, 1865.
11. Power, Abraham Lincoln, 66–67.
12. “Death and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln: A Contemporary Description by Mrs. Ellen Kean,” Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield; Ellen Tree Kean letter, May 4, 1865, Sol Smith collection, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.
13. Searcher, The Farewell to Lincoln, 186, 218.
14. Power, Abraham Lincoln, 66–67.
15. Hatch letter, April 27, 1865.
16. Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, 321; undated, untitled newspaper clipping, Ford’s Theater archive.
17. Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, 321.
18. New York Times, April 29, 1865.
19. Washington Evening Star, April 28, 1865.
20. “Lincoln’s Funeral in Cleveland,” Lincoln Lore, April 1968, 2.
21. Ibid.
22. Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lincoln, 347.
23. “Lincoln’s Funeral in Cleveland,” 1.
24. New York Times, April 26, 1865; Wilmington Delaware Republican, May 4, 1865.
25. Luthin, The Real Abraham Lincoln, 663.
26. Ibid.
27. Undated, untitled newspaper clipping, Ford’s Theater archive.
28. “Lincoln’s Funeral in Cleveland,” 3; Henry S. Wilson letter, April 21, 1865, Ford’s Theater archive.
29. Chicago Tribune, April 28, 1865.
30. New York Times, April 25, 1865.
31. Philadelphia Inquirer, April 24, 1865.
32. New York Times, April 22, 1865.
33. Chicago Tribune, April 22, 1865.
34. Washington, D.C. police blotter, 1865, National Archives.
35. New York Times, April 25, 1865; New York World, April 25, 1865; Boston Daily Advertiser, April 24, 1865.
36. Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, 222.
37. Ibid., 226; Undated, untitled newspaper clipping, Ford’s Theater archives; Levi R. Hiffner letter, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis; S. N. Kephart statement, Ross-Kidwell papers, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis.
38. John Jefferson diary, Filson Club Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
39. Undated, untitled newspaper clipping, Ford’s Theater archive.
40. Ellen Tree Kean letter, May 4, 1865, Sol Smith collection, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.
41. Chicago Tribune, April 28, 1865.
42. Springfield Daily Illinois State Journal, May 4, 1865; “Lincoln’s Funeral in Cleveland,” 2.
43. Charles C. Appel diary, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
44. Undated, untitled newspaper clipping, Ford’s Theater archive.
45. Power, Abraham Lincoln, 98–99.
46. Undated, untitled newspaper clipping, Ford’s Theater archive.
47. Chicago Evening Journal, May 3, 24, 1865.
48. Undated, untitled newspaper clipping, Ford’s Theater archive.
49. Ibid.
50. Ibid.
30. Dust to Dust
1. Porter, “How Booth’s Body Was Hidden,” 71.
2. Ibid., 70; Washington Evening Star, July 7, 1865.
3. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 445.
4. Ibid.; Washington Evening Star, July 7, 1865.
5. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 455.
6. Ibid.
7. Porter, “How Booth’s Body Was Hidden,” 71.
8. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 446.
9. Chicago Tribune, April 29, 1865.
10. Mildred Lewis Rutherford, “Miss Rutherford’s Scrapbook: Valuable Information about the South—The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln,” vol. 2 (Athens, Ga., 1924), 9.
11. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account,” 446.
12. John Q. Anderson, ed., Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861–1868 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1955), 341.
13. Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1865; Cora Owens Hume diary, Filson Club Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky.
14. Blake, Human Depravity, 4.
15. Theodore Edgar Saint John letter, May 4, 1865, Library of Congress.
16. Alton (Ill.) Telegraph, May 12, 1865; Springfield Daily Illinois State Journal, May 4, 1865.
17. James T. Hickey, “Springfield, May, 1865,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 58 (Spring 1965): 33.
18. Elbridge Atwood letter, May 7, 1865, Atwood Family letters, Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield.
19. Springfield Daily Illinois State Journal, May 8, 1865.
20. Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, 256.
21. Octavia Roberts Corneau, ed., “A Girl in the Sixties: Excerpts From the Journal of Anna Ridgely,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 22 (October 1929): 444–45.
22. Springfield Daily Illinois State Journal, May 3, 5, 1865.
23. Beall, “Recollections of the Assassination and Funeral,” 490.
24. Springfield Daily Illinois State Journal, May 2, 6, 1865; W. W. Sweet, “Bishop Matthew Simpson and the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 7 (April 1914): 66, 67.
25. Luthin, The Real Abraham Lincoln, 674; Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, 248.
26. Luthin, The Real Abraham Lincoln, 674.
27. Ibid.
28. Undated, untitled newspaper clipping, Ford’s Theater archives; Springfield Daily Illinois State Journal, May 4, 1865.
29. Alton (Ill.) Telegraph, May 12, 1865; Power, Abraham Lincoln, 114–15; Beall, Recollections, 492.
30. Luthin, The Real Abraham Lincoln, 674.
31. Chicago Tribune, May 6, 1865.
32. Elbridge Atwood letter, May 7, 1865; Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, 257.
33. Beall, Recollections, 492.
34. Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, 301; Luthin, The Real Abraham Lincoln, 675–76.
35. Chicago Tribune, May 6, 1865.
36. Springfield Daily Illinois State Journal, May 6, 1865.
37. Goodrich, The Day Dixie Died, 63.
38. George Buckley letter, May 1, 1865, Buckley Family papers, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis.
31. Old Scores
1. Springfield Daily Illinois State Journal, May 3, 1865.
2. John Armstrong letter, Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield.
3. Horatio Nelson Taft diary, Library of Congress.
4. Springfield Daily Illinois State Journal, May 15, 1865.
5. Ibid.
6. Franklin, Diary of James T. Ayers, 101.
7. Ibid.
8. Jaquette, South after Gettysburg, 182.
9. William C. Davis, An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government (New York: Harcourt, 2001), 302.
10. Chicago Tribune, May 15, 22, 1865.
11. Julia Trumbull letters, May 16 and May 17, 1865, box 1, folder 15, Lyman Trumbull collection, Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield.
12. Goodrich, The Day Dixie Died, 69.
13. Council Bluffs (Iowa) Bugle, June 22, 1865.
14. Edward Payson Goodwin letter, June 1, 1865, Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield.
15. Graf, The Papers of Andrew Johnson, 581.
16. New York Times, May 6, 1865.
17. Goodrich, The Day Dixie Died, 77.
18. Castel, Andrew Johnson, 24; Springfield Daily Illinois State Journal, May 3, 1865; New York Times, May 2, 1865.
19. Washington Evening Star, May 27, 1865.
20. Alexandria Louisiana Democrat, June 14, 1865.
21. Lucius W. Barber, Army Memoirs (Chicago: J. M. W. Jones, 1894), 211.
22. Mackenzie, “Maggie!,” May 28, 1865.
23. Washington Evening Star, May 6, 1865; Springfield Daily Illinois State Journal, May 3, 1865.
24. Randall, Mary Lincoln, 346.
25. Keckley, Behind the Scenes, 196.
26. Laas, Wartime Washington, n. 500; Simon, Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant, 157.
27. Gerry, “Lincoln’s Last Day,” 527.
28. Boston Evening Standard, April 22, 1865.
29. Rhodehamel and Taper, Right or Wrong, n., 146; Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, 226; Keckley, Behind the Scenes, 193–94.
30. Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, 228–29.
31. Ross, The President’s Wife, 246.
32. Gerry, “Lincoln’s Last Day,” 527; Keckley, Behind the Scenes, 208.
33. Washington Evening Star, May 22, 1865.
34. Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, 98, 99.
35. Chicago Tribune, April 28, May 2, 1865.
36. Alexandria Louisiana Democrat, July 12, 1865.
37. Luthin, The Real Abraham Lincoln, 663.
38. A. Daggett letter, April 16, 1865, Ford’s Theater archive.
39. Washington Evening Star, July 7, 1865.
40. New York Times, July 21, 1865.
41. Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, 97.
42. “Erroneous Assassination Reports,” Lincoln Lore, April 1957, 2.