11
William H. Garrett, “True Story of the Capture of John Wilkes Booth,” Confederate Veteran, vol. 29 (April 1921), p. 129.
12
Richmond News-Leader, March 3, 1911.
13
Statement of William H. Garrett from a copy (1940) owned by his niece Kate G. Campbell, George S. Bryan Papers, New York Public Library.
14
Lucinda K. B. Holloway, “Capture of Booth,” Washington Evening Star, April 10, 1897.
15
Jeanne Senseny, “Wilkes Booth’s Death,” [1895], Booth Scrapbook, Fawcett Theatre Collection, Hodges Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
16
Utica Daily Observer, Oct. 4, 1867.
17
“Capture of Lincoln’s Assassin,” Milwaukee Sentinel, clipping, n.d. [1896?], LFFRC.
18
New York Sun, Feb. 11, 1917.
19
Edward P. Doherty, testimony, May 22, 1865, in Poore, The Conspiracy Trial, vol. 2, p. 94.
20
Statement of Herold, April 27, 1865, 4/442ff., NA M599.
21
Ingraham, “Pursuit and Death of John Wilkes Booth,” and Ingraham, “The Tragedy of the Civil War,” LFFRC. There is some confusion about who said what to Booth.
22
David Hume, The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, 6 vols. (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1983–85), vol. 6, p. 214.
23
U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, 2 vols. (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885–86), vol. 2, p. 584.
24
R. B. Garrett to A. R. Taylor, Portsmouth, Va., Oct. 14, 1907, JOH.
25
William J. Newbill to Ella Mahoney, Irvington, Va., Nov. 2, 1925, author’s collection.
26
Richard H. Garrett to Grandison Warring, Sept. 5, 1866, copy courtesy of Francis J. Gorman; Philadelphia Press, April 12, 1896; Claim of Richard H. Garrett [1871–72], Report 743, pp. 1–8, U.S. House of Representatives, 43rd Congress, 1st Session.
27
Utica Daily Observer, Oct. 4, 1867.
28
Herman Neugarten, statement, May 29, 1865, Doherty Papers, Manuscript Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Ill., as well as his service and pension records, NA; Harrisburg Telegraph, Nov. 26, 1910.
29
Accounts by Baker, Doherty, and Conger, differing in some details, provide the basics of Booth’s capture and death. Doherty: testimony, May 22, 1865, in Poore, The Conspiracy Trial, vol. 2, pp. 92–94; report, Washington, D.C., April 29, 1865, in OR, ser. 1, vol. 46, pt. 1, pp. 1317–22; statement, n.d., 456/276, NA M619. Conger: testimony, May 17, 1865, in Poore, The Conspiracy Trial, vol. 1, pp. 312–22; testimony, May 14, 1867, Impeachment Investigation, pp. 324–33; testimony, June 25, 1867, in Trial of Surratt, vol. 1, pp. 305–14; statement, April 27, 1865, 455/728ff., NA M619. Baker: statement, April 27, 1865, 455/665–86, NA M619; testimony, June 25, 1867, in Trial of Surratt, vol. 1, pp. 315–23; testimony, May 22, 1867, Impeachment Investigation, pp. 479–90. These are supplemented by reports drawn from the participants in the Washington Star, New York Times, New York World, and New York Herald.
30
Steven G. Miller, “Boston Corbett: A Re-Evaluation,” paper delivered at the “Crime of the Century, Part II” Surratt Society Conference, April 1, 2006; Corbett, copy of deposition, Cloud County, Kans., Nov. 1, 1883, Boston Corbett–George A. Huron Collection, Kansas State Historical Society.
31
Rochester Democrat, May 2, 1865; Troy Weekly Times, May 6, 1865; Boston Daily Globe, Feb. 20, 1887.
32
Philadelphia Weekly Times, April 14, 1877; Corbett, statement, April 29, 1865, 455/253–61, NA M619; John C. Collins, “Recollections of Boston Corbett by an Eyewitness of the Booth Shooting,” clipping, n.d., LFFRC.
33
“The Assassin’s End,” Harper’s Weekly, vol. 9 (May 13, 1865), p. 294.
34
Telegram Magazine (Portland, Ore.), Feb. 19, 1910, with Parady’s “Kill him” remarks and characterization of Herold.
35
Manchester (N.H.) Union Democrat, May 2, 1865; New York Tribune, April 28, 1865.
36
Frank G. Carpenter, “John Wilkes Booth: A Talk with the Man That Captured Him,” Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, vol. 40 (Sept. 1887), p. 450.
37
Wesley Harris, “Booth’s Arsenal,” posted Dec. 22, 2011, diggingthepast.blogspot.com, accessed April 15, 2013.
38
William L. Reuter, The King Can Do No Wrong (New York: Pageant Press, 1958), p. 43, based on a 1916 Conger interview.
39
William Byrne, deposition, May 29, 1865, Doherty Papers, Lincoln Presidential Library, Springfield, Ill.
40
Corbett stated that Booth did not attempt to stop Herold from leaving, “giving him a free chance to go, and encouraging him to do so, instead of threatening to shoot him as Herold said he did.” Corbett, statement, May 1, 1865, 455/254–62, NA M619.
41
“Lincoln’s Assassination,” St. Louis Republic, n.d. [ca. 1895], LFFRC.
42
Steven G. Miller, ed., “A Trooper’s Account of the Death of Booth,” Surratt Courier, vol. 20 (May 1995), p. 7.
43
R. B. Hoover, “The Slayer of J. Wilkes Booth,” North American Review, vol. 149 (Sept. 1889), p. 382, with “What a God” remark. Corbett would never have applied the adjective heroic to Booth; Hoover captures only the essence of his description.
44
Chicago Globe, April 3, 1889.
45
Butte Evening News, Sunday ed., April 3, 1910.
46
Reading Eagle, April 2, 1911; Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, May 16, 1865.
47
Richard Thatcher, “Boston Corbett’s Prison Life,” manuscript (1905), Corbett-Huron Collection; Thomas Goodrich, The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005), p. 255.
48
Washington National Tribune, Aug. 8, 1912.
49
Edward Kirk Jr., “Recollections and Reminiscences in Connection with Boston Corbett,” manuscript (1905), Corbett-Huron Collection, which mentions shaking Lincoln’s hand. Conger and Baker felt Corbett shot Booth “without order, pretext, or excuse.” See their statement, Dec. 24, 1865, in Baker, History of the United States Secret Service, p. 537.
50
Buffalo Commercial, clipping, n.d. [ca. 1891], and Brooklyn Daily Eagle, clipping, n.d. [1922], both LFFRC; Richmond Whig, June 28, 1867.
51
Atlanta Constitution, May 21, 1886; Galveston News, July 19, 1893.
52
Washington National Tribune, April 7, 1910, and May 4, 1911.
53
The Assassination and History of the Conspiracy, p. 65; Boston Herald, April 28, 1865; New York Tribune, April 28, 1865.
54
Atlanta Constitution, Dec. 11, 1881.
55
Conger File, Beaverhead County Museum, Dillon, Montana.
56
Alfred A. Woodhull, comp., Catalogue of the Surgical Section of the United States Army Medical Museum (Washington: GPO, 1866), pt. 3, p. 58.
57
New York Mercury, March 26, 1881.
58
Philadelphia Press, May 4, 1865.
59
St. Louis Globe Democrat, March 7, 1897, and July 25, 1943.
60
Ella Mahoney, “My Last Witness,” her interview with Robert C. Garrett [1932?], Mahoney Papers, HSHC.
61
Atlanta Daily Constitution, Aug. 28, 1879; Chicago Globe, April 3, 1889.
62
New York Clipper, May 6, 1865; “The Killing of Booth,” clipping, n.d. [April 1865], Booth Scrapbook, Folger Shakespeare Library.
63
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64
Baker, History of the United States Secret Service, p. 507; Washington National Tribune, Feb. 13, 1890.
65
Atlanta Constitution, May 21, 1886.
66
Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 3, 1938; Steers, Blood on the Moon, pp. 204–5.
67
Washington National Tribune, March 11, 1915. This is Oatley’s rank from the April 1865 muster roll of the Mahopac, where he served under the name of Fred S. Otis. Thanks to Trevor Plante.
68
Welles and Stanton to Commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, Wash., D.C., April 27, 1865, Mark Katz, Witness to an Era: The Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner (Washington: Viking, 1991), p. 59; log of the USS Montauk, RG 24, NA; Leonard F. Guttridge, “Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth: Reexamining the Evidence,” Navy Medicine, vol. 84 ( Jan.–Feb., 1993), pp. 17–26.
69
H. B. Hibben, A History of the Washington Navy Yard (Washington: GPO, 1890), pp. 146–49.
70
Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, vol. 13 (Feb. 1926), p. 11.
71
William May to Dudley Knox, Wash., D.C., May 18, 1925, U. S. Naval History Division, Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861–1865 (Washington: GPO, 1971), pt. 6, pp. 26–28; New York Tribune, April 28, 1865.
72
James O. Hall, “That Ghastly Errand,” Surratt Courier, vol. 21 (Oct. 1996), pp. 4–5.
73
Seaton Munroe, “Recollections of Lincoln’s Assassination,” North American Review, vol. 162 (March 1896), pp. 431–34; Munroe, examination, April 28, 1865, 4/356–59, NA M599.
74
J. F. May, “The Mark of the Scalpel,” Records of the Columbia Historical Society, vol. 13 (1910), p. 55, from the original 1887 manuscript, Manuscript Division, LOC; Barnes, testimony, May 20, 1865, in Poore, The Conspiracy Trial, vol. 2, p. 60.
75
New York Herald, Sept. 4, 1904.
76
John F. May, statement, 4/360–65, NA M599; Allen D. Spiegel, “Dr. John Frederick May and the Identification of John Wilkes Booth’s Body,” Journal of Community Health, vol. 23 (Oct. 1998), p. 397; New York Clipper, July 29, 1865.
77
Harper’s Weekly, vol. 9 (May 13, 1865), p. 294.
78
Washington National Tribune, May 6, 1915.
79
John M. Peddicord’s recollections, Roanoke Evening News, June 3, 1906; Roanoke Times, Jan. 8, 1921.
80
Baltimore Daily Gazette, April 29, 1865.
81
Barbee, “Lincoln and Booth,” pp. 996–97; New York Tribune, April 29, 1865; New York Mail and Express, May 15, 1896.
82
John K. Lattimer, “Similarities in Fatal Woundings of John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald,” New York State Journal of Medicine, vol. 66 (July 1966), p. 1786; John Weiss and Son, A Catalogue of Surgical Instruments, Apparatus, and Appliances, Etc. (London: M. S. Rickerby, 1863), plates 43, 43a.
83
Entry of April 27, 1865, courtesy of Joe Landes, his great-grandson; Kansas City Journal-Post, Feb. 7, 1932. Contrary to reports, “the bad head and wicked heart” of the assassin were not touched by the autopsy doctors. Boston Herald, quoted in New York Clipper, May 20, 1865.
84
Joseph K. Barnes, comp., The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861–65) (Washington: GPO, 1875, 2nd issue), pt. 1, p. 452; Barnes to Stanton, Wash., D.C., April 27, 1865, Entry 623, File D, RG 94, Treasure Room, NA, courtesy of the late Len Guttridge, a valued friend; Alfred A. Woodhull, Catalogue of the Surgical Section of the United States Army Museum (Washington: GPO, 1866), pt. 3, p. 58.
85
New York Daily Graphic, April 13, 1876.
86
Washington Evening Star, Nov. 21, 1881; Gretchen Worden, “Is It the Body of John Wilkes Booth?” Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, vol. 16, no. 5 (1994), p. 77; Harvey E. Brown, The Medical Department of the United States Army from 1775 to 1873 (Washington: Surgeon General’s Office, 1873), p. 225–26, 237.
87
Interview with John C. Watson, Peddicord’s grandson, Alexandria, Va., June 2, 1995.
88
“End of J. Wilkes Booth,” Chicago Daily Tribune, Feb. 17, 1889; L. B. Baker, “An Eyewitness Account of the Death and Burial of J. Wilkes Booth,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, vol. 39 (Dec. 1946), p. 445.
89
Frank G. Carpenter, “John Wilkes Booth,” Washington National Tribune, Feb. 13, 1890; Washington Evening Star, May 12, 1897.
90
Baker’s destination was not entirely a secret. John B. Montgomery, commandant of the Navy Yard, knew the body was taken to the Arsenal. Montgomery to Welles, Wash., D.C., April 27, 1865, HM 25253, Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.
91
David Homer Bates, “Booth, the Assassin,” typescript (1911), chap. 10, pp. 15–16, Bates Papers, LOC.
92
John B. Ellis, The Sights and Secrets of the National Capital (New York: U.S. Publishing, 1869), pp. 463ff.
93
George L. Porter, “How Booth’s Body Was Hidden,” Columbian Magazine, vol. 4 (April 1911), pp. 70–73; interview of Marcia Maloney, Porter’s descendant, by my student Kay Washechek, Oct. 25, 2009.
94
Chicago Tribune, April 28, 1865, courtesy of Prof. Richard Fox.
EPILOGUE. A GREEN AND NARROW BED
1
“Baker, the Detective,” clipping, n.d., LFFRC.
2
Andrew C. A. Jampoler, The Last Lincoln Conspirator: John Surratt’s Flight from the Gallows (Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2008), for his escape, capture, and trial.
3
Washington Evening Star, January 3, 1890.
4
Clarke, Booth, pp. 12–15, 111–40; Booth, diary, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University.
5
James M. Goode, Capital Losses: A Cultural History of Washington’s Destroyed Buildings (Washington and London: Smithsonian Press, 2003), p. 341; Julian E. Raymond, “History of Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., 1794-1951,” typescript (1951?), p. 83, courtesy of my friend Susan Lemke, National Defense University Library, Special Collections, Archives and History Division, Fort McNair.
6
Frank H. Phipps to Thomas H. Ridgate Sr., Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 16, 1919, JOH.
7
Washington Evening Star, Oct. 3, 1867; Baltimore Sun, Jan. 14, 1913.
8
Turner and Turner, Lincoln, p. 345.
9
Kauffman, American Brutus, pp. 387–90.
10
New York World, Feb. 16, 1869.
11
Boston Journal, May 20, 1865.
12
Edwin M. Stanton, testimony, May 18, 1867, Impeachment Investigation, p. 409.
13
Booth to Stanton, Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 9, 1865, reel 10, E. M. Stanton Papers, LOC.
14
Richmond Times-Dispatch, Nov. 13, 1932.
15
Booth to Grant, Baltimore, Md., Sept. 11, 1867, in The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, vol. 17, ed. John Y. Simon (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991), pp. 315–16n.; New York Times, Sept. 19, 1867, and May 20, 1902.
16
Booth to Johnson, New York, Feb. 10, 1869, in The Papers of Andrew Johnson, vol. 15, 1868–69, ed. Paul H. Bergeron (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), pp. 431–32.
17
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Jan. 14, 1877.
18
Washington Evening Star, Feb. 16, 1869; Washington Post, March 25, 1901.
19
Ford to Booth [Baltimore, Md., Feb. 15, 1869], Hampden-Booth Theatre Library, The Players.
20
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Feb. 16–19, 1869, issues of Baltimore’s Sun, Gazette, and Commercial Advertiser.
21
Wilson, Booth, pp. 292–95.
22
New York Daily Tribune, June 7, 1903, also containing Joe Booth’s remark about the filled tooth and Burton’s comment on the boot.
23
“Identified Booth’s Body,” clipping, n.d. [1903], JOH.
24
Newark Sunday Call, Feb. 6, 1938.
25
Baltimore Sun, Jan. 14, 1903; Wilkes-Barre Times, Dec. 19, 1894; “Lincoln’s Assassination,” Boston Traveler, clipping, n.d, Townsend Scrapbook, LOC.
26
Patent No. 32,261, issued to Weaver on May 7, 1861, www.google.com/patents, accessed Jan. 14, 2010.
27
Baltimore Sun, June 4, 1903.
28
George Ford, These Were Actors: A Story of the Chapmans and the Drakes (New York: Library Publishers, 1955), p. 301.
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