30
Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 24, 1906; New York Telegraph, May 23, 1909.
31
Ferguson, I Saw Booth Shoot Lincoln, p. 13.
32
Ford, “Memoranda,” MdHS; Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, June 24, 1878.
33
Annie A. Fields, diary, May 5, 1865, Fields Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.
34
New York Police Gazette, April 22, 1865.
35
Kenneth Turan in Los Angeles Times, April 3, 2005.
36
Terry Alford, “John Wilkes Booth and George Alfred Townsend: A Marriage Made in Hell?” paper delivered to the Third Biennial Tudor Hall Conference, May 3, 1992, Aberdeen, Md.
37
Chicago Times, April 18, 1865; Chicago Post, April 16, 1865.
38
Washington Chronicle, Sept. 5, 1886.
39
Baltimore Sun, March 17, 1907.
40
E. L. Bangs to Ella Mahoney, Baltimore, Md., Nov. 28, 1927, Mahoney Papers, HSHC.
41
Baltimore American, July 15, 1905.
42
Clarke, Booth, p. 121; Rhodehamel and Taper, “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me,” p. 65.
43
New York Clipper, Sept. 16, 1865; New York Telegraph, May 23, 1909.
44
Cincinnati Enquirer, Aug. 3, 1884; John T. Ford, testimony, May 31, 1865, in The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators, ed. Edward Steers (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003), p. 103; New York Police Gazette, April 22, 1865.
45
Townsend, Katy of Catoctin, p. 343; Townsend, “Crime of Lincoln’s Murder.”
46
Chicago Post, April 16, 1865; Baltimore Sun, July 15, 1864.
47
Denver Post, Jan. 7, 1899.
48
“Booth Once Started Riot,” clipping, n.d, Booth Vertical File, Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, Md.
49
Ferguson, I Saw Booth Shoot Lincoln, pp. 14–19.
50
“J. Wilkes Booth,” clipping, n.d. [1865], LFFRC; Chicago Post, April 16, 1865.
51
George Ford, clipping, n.d. [Aug. 15, 1926], scrapbook titled “April Fourteenth, 1865,” McLellan Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University.
52
John Mathews, statement, April 30, 1865, 5/302–14, NA M599.
53
Chicago Post, April 16, 1865.
54
Ferguson, I Saw Booth Shoot Lincoln, p. 14.
55
Lillian Woodman, Crowding Memories (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920), p. 61; Brennan, “Joseph Booth,” p. 25.
56
Boston Daily Advertiser, Sept. 24, 1896; Norcross, “Child’s Memory,” p. 72.
57
New York Daily Tribune, June 7, 1903; “Saw Edwin Booth Identify Brother,” clipping, n.d., Wooster Scrapbook, p. 14a, Birmingham Public Library Archives.
58
James Henry Hackett, Notes and Comments upon Certain Plays and Actors of Shakespeare (New York: Carleton, 1863), p. 93.
59
“Baize,” clipping, n.d. [Boston, April 3, 1909], Julia Bennett Barrow File, HTC.
60
Chicago Inter Ocean, Aug. 27, 1893.
61
Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics, Feb. 14, 1863.
62
Quoted in C. Spencer Chambers, clipping, Walton (Ky.) Advertiser, March [no day given], 1929, Shettel Papers, York County Historical Society.
63
Oggel, Letters and Notebooks of Mary Devlin Booth, pp. 105–6.
64
Boston Evening Transcript, Nov. 30, 1894.
65
Charles H. Shattuck, The Hamlet of Edwin Booth (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1969), p. 14.
66
Reignolds, Yesterdays with Actors, p. 142.
67
Deirdre L. Kincaid, “Rough Magic: The Theatrical Life of John Wilkes Booth” (Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2000), p. 68; Chicago Tribune, June 18, 1878; “Drawing to an End,” clipping, n.d. [ca. 1889], Edwin Booth Biographical File, HRHRC.
68
Undated note in Kimmel Collection, Macdonald-Kelce Library, University of Tampa; David Carroll, The Matinee Idols (New York: Arbor House, 1972), p. 32.
69
Rock Brynner, quoted in Washington Post, June 18, 2006.
70
St. Louis Sunday Republic, clipping, n.d., Black Papers, Kresge Library, Oakland University.
71
Chicago Post, April 16, 1865; Detroit Free Press, Dec. 25, 1892.
72
Emerson, “The Night That Lincoln Was Shot,” p. 179; Boston Globe, n.d. [Dec. 1895], Booth Files, HTC.
73
Washington Post, July 17, 1904.
74
“J. Wilkes Booth,” clipping, n.d. [1861], John Wilkes Booth Biographical File, HRHRC.
75
Ferguson, I Saw Booth Shoot Lincoln, pp. 17–18.
76
Boston Herald, Jan. 10, 1890; Morris, Life on the Stage, p. 98, Townsend, Katy of Catoctin, p. 462.
77
St. Louis Republic, April 19, 1903; New York Herald, June 27, 1909; New York Dramatic Mirror, Feb. 12, 1898, and Oct. 3, 1908.
78
“The Actor’s Fame,” clipping, n.d., Seymour Collection, Princeton University Library.
79
Ellsler, “Stage Memories,” p. 110.
80
Cincinnati Enquirer, July 2, 1885.
81
Baltimore Sun, April 7, 1907.
82
Boston Herald, Jan. 10, 1890.
83
Washington Daily National Intelligencer, March 18, 1865.
84
New York Sun, March 17, 1925.
85
Washington Evening Star, Nov. 14, 1891.
86
Jefferson, Intimate Recollections, p. 247.
87
Rhodehamel and Taper, “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me.” p. 95.
88
Pittsburg Dispatch, April 20, 1890.
89
St. Louis Star and Times, April 22, 1933.
90
Oregonian (Portland, Ore.), Dec. 13, 1908.
91
Charles Pope, diary, Oct. 10–13, 1858, p. 335, “An American Actor’s Diary—1858,” ed. J. Alan Hammack, Educational Theatre Journal, vol. 7 (Dec. 1955), p. 335.
92
Robson, “Memoirs of Fifty Years,” pt. 1, p. 88.
93
Cincinnati Enquirer, Jan. 19, 1886.
94
John T. Ford, testimony, May 31, 1865, in Steers, The Trial, pp. 102–4.
95
Morris, Life on the Stage, p. 103.
96
Ferguson, I Saw Booth Shoot Lincoln, p. 15.
97
Baltimore Sun, April 7, 1907; Reignolds, Yesterdays with Actors, p. 142.
98
Chicago Tribune, Jan. 21, 1862.
99
Morris, Life on the Stage, p. 103.
100
Detroit Free Press, Aug. 11, 1916.
101
New York Press, May 21, 1893; Poore, The Conspiracy Trial, vol. 2, p. 532; Weaver: Chicago Inter Ocean, Aug. 27, 1893.
102
Baltimore Sun, Feb. 12, 1926; Detroit Free Press, Aug. 11, 1916.
103
Texas Siftings (Austin), Feb. 13, 1886.
104
New York Clipper, March 26, 1910.
105
Chicago Inter Ocean, Aug. 27, 1893.
106
New York Clipper, Sept. 16, 1865; Boston Herald, Jan. 5, 1890.
107
Robson, “Fifty Years of My Life,” pt. 5, p. 484.
108
Alfriend, “Recollections,” p. 604.
109
; Morris, Life on the Stage, p. 104.
110
Washington Daily National Intelligencer, Jan. 22, 1865.
111
“Wilkes Booth,” clipping, n.d. [Boston, c. 1895], Box 3, John T. Ford Papers, LOC.
112
Stolph, “Mrs. John Drew,” p. 320.
113
Washington Daily National Intelligencer, Nov. 9, 1863.
114
Philadelphia Press, Dec. 4, 1881; Kansas City Times, Feb. 23, 1885.
115
Boston Sunday Herald, April 11, 1897.
116
Chicago Daily News, Feb. 11, 1926.
117
Washington Daily National Intelligencer, April 30, 1863; T. Crugar Cuyler to Boyd B. Stutler, Wayside, Ga., June 11, 1949, in West Virginia Memory Database Collection, http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvmemory/index.html, accessed Sept. 4, 2012.
118
Louis J. Weichmann, A True History of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and of the Conspiracy of 1865 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), p. 115.
119
Boston Sunday Gazette, Jan. 24, 1863; New York World, text on verso of Kate Reignolds playbill, JOH.
120
Washington Daily National Intelligencer, April 28, 1863.
121
Boston Saturday Gazette, Jan. 24, 1863; Fawcett: Detroit Free Press, Dec. 15, 1901. Edwin did play the piece after this date, however.
122
Brown, A History of the New York Stage, vol. 1, p. 510. Booth played the Colley Cibber version, defended “as a good acting play, one for the stage and not for the library.” Editor’s note in Booth’s own promptbook copy (New York: Samuel French, n.y.), HRHRC.
123
New York Tribune in “J. Wilkes Booth: Opinions of the New York Press,” broadside [Boston, 1862], Edward Naumberg Gift Envelope, Booth Family Folder, Seymour Collection, Princeton University Library; New York Times and Messenger, March 23, 1862.
124
Kansas City Times, Feb. 23, 1885.
125
New York Sunday Mercury, n.d. [1891], Ford Papers, MdHS.
126
Ellsler, “Stage Memories,” pp. 109–10.
127
“The Stage in America,” The Era Almanack and Annual for 1873 (London: Era, 1872), p. 45.
128
Booth to Keach, Chicago, Dec. 8, 1862, Gratz Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Boston Courier, June 14, 1874; Kansas City Times, Feb. 23, 1885.
129
Clipping, n.d. [1865], Atwater Scrapbook, Chicago Historical Society.
130
“Actor Owens’s Successes,” clipping, n.d., HTC.
131
Clarke, Booth, p. 108 (with hoarded comment, p. 81, and 5–20s, p. 130); Baltimore American, Dec. 8, 1902.
132
Boston Water Power Company Collection, Vol. AC-4, Transfer #7777 (Boston, May 30, 1864), Baker Library, Harvard University; Boston Post, April 28, 1864. Special thanks to Jennifer Turner.
133
Bradford [Pa.] Evening Star, Oct. 29, 1888; John J. McLaurin, Sketches in Crude-Oil (3rd ed., Franklin, Pa.: author, 1902), p. 105.
134
Booth to Simonds, Phila., Feb. 28, 1863, Andrew de Coppet Collection, Princeton University Library.
135
Richard and Kellie Gutman, “Boston: A Home for John Wilkes Booth?” Surratt Society News, vol. 10 (Sept., 1985), pp. 1, 6–7. Beth Carroll-Horrocks helped the author appreciate the lot’s location.
136
New York Herald, Nov. 1, 1903.
137
Mary E. Shull, “A Scrapbook of Memories,” a paper presented at the 1990 Tudor Hall Conference, author’s copy. My appreciation goes to Mary Beth for her groundbreaking work on the Mitchell family.
138
Neely, Fate of Liberty, p. 26.
139
Harry Ide, “The Shooting of Jessie Wharton,” at freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/-pa91/cc240001, accessed Feb. 20, 2013; New York Herald-Tribune, April 23, 1862; Washington Daily National Intelligencer, April 29, 1862.
140
Thomas Walter, “Personal Recollections and Experiences of an Obscure Soldier,” Grand Army Scout and Soldiers’ Mail, vol. 3, no. 35 (Aug. 9, 1884), p. 2.
141
St. Louis Daily Missouri Democrat, April 22, 1862.
142
Clarke, Booth, pp. 55–56; Asia B. Clarke to Jean Anderson, Tudor Hall, April 4, 1854, Clarke Letters, MdHS.
143
“John Overton Wharton,” manuscript family genealogy, n.d. [c. 1900?], author’s collection.
144
New York Pomeroy’s Democrat, July 20, 1870.
145
Goshen [Indiana] Times, Sept. 10, 1868.
146
Clarke, Booth, p. 85.
147
Washington Post, July 17, 1904.
148
Philadelphia Weekly Press, Dec. 8, 1881.
149
Kansas City Star, Nov. 8, 1897.
150
Washington, They Knew Lincoln, pp. 90–91; Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2010), p. 240; Chicago Daily News, Feb. 12, 1916.
151
New York Clipper, Jan. 23, 1864; Denver Rocky Mountain News, Jan. 20, 1864; New York Herald-Tribune, Jan. 9, 1864.
152
Booth to Moses Kimball, St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 2, 1864, in Rhodehamel and Taper, “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me,” p. 93; Booth to Ellsler, Louisville, Ky., Jan. 23, 1864, Western Reserve Historical Society.
153
St. Joseph Morning Herald, Jan. 3, 1864; New York Clipper, Feb. 21, 1874; Cameron Observer, Jan. 16, 1879; Cincinnati Commercial, Feb. 13, 1912. Thanks to my student Kathleen Mikitko, who studied Tiernan’s life.
154
St. Louis Republic, Aug. 4, 1901; Kansas City Star, July 25, 1909; Kansas City Star, Jan. 3, 1912; identification of Bassett from “Operating Expense Record” (1863–64), pp. 60, 147, Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company Records, Newberry Library, Chicago.
155
Krone, “Recollections of an Old Actor,” p. 343.
156
John S. Kendall, The Golden Age of the New Orleans Theater (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1952), pp. 495–502; Henry Rightor, Standard History of New Orleans, Louisiana (Chicago: Lewis Pubs., 1900), p. 467.
157
New Orleans Daily Picayune, March 16, 1864; Samples, Lust for Fame, p. 81.
158
Booth to R. M. Field, Cincinnati, Feb. 22, 1864, in Rhodehamel and Taper, “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me,” p. 101; New Orleans Times, March 19, 22, and 27, 1864; Booth to Simonds, n.p., n.d. [1864], Coll. 420, Fogg Autograph Collection, Maine Historical Society; Alfred Stille, Therapeutic and Materia Medica (Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1874), pp. 376–77.
159
Boston Globe, March 7, 1909; The Civil War in America (Washington: Library of Congress, 2012), pp 12–13.
160
Rhodehamel and Taper, “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me,” p. 126.
161
Peacock to John E. Boos, Massillon, Ohio, Feb. 25, 1914, quoted in undated catalog of the Autograph Alcove, Wauwatosa, Wisc., item 35602; Stephen B. Williams, “Precursor to Infamy: Encounter in New Orleans. A Soldier’s Story” (1994), copy in author’s possession.
162
Benj. F. Butler, Butler’s Book (Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892), p. 376; Kendall, Golden Age of the New Orleans Theater, p. 498.
163
Boston Evening Transcript, April 27 and May 17, 1864; Boston Courier, July 12, 1874.
164
Boston Post, April 17, 1865.
165
New York Mercury, Oct. 5, 1884.
166
Clarke, Booth, pp. 100, 116.
167
Boston Evening Transcript, Nov. 30, 1894.
168
New York National Police Gazette, April 29, 1865; New York Dai
ly Tribune, April 17, 1865.
169
New York Clipper, April 22, 1865.
170
“The Murder of Lincoln,” clipping, n.d. [1874?], HRHRC; Chicago Daily Tribune, June 23, 1878. Booth told the actor Charles Pope, “My voice is in bad shape.” New York Sun, March 28, 1897.
171
Louis J. Mackey interviews (ca. 1894) with Franklin-area residents, copies at the Drake Well Museum, Titusville, Pa. The interviews are available, with some errors in transcription, in Ernest C. Miller, John Wilkes Booth in the Pennsylvania Oil Country (Meadville, Pa.: Crawford County Historical Society, 1987).
172
“An Incident in the Life of Titus Ridgway,” from an interview with his great-nephew Lloyd Ridgway by Arthur M. Crawford, typescript (1988), courtesy of the Rev. Mr. Crawford; Crawford [Pa.] Journal, April 4, 1907.
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