Lenaghan, Peter, 215
Leonard, J. A., 104
Leonard, James, 196–97
Leslie, Frank, 333
Lewis, James, 89, 92
Libby, George W., 68–69, 76
Life on the Stage (Morris), 146
Lincoln, Abraham and abduction plots, 178–82
African Americans’ regard for, 1
assassination of, 266–69
biographers, 9
and Booth’s acting, 139–40
and Booth’s “Alow Me” speech, 102
and Booth’s assassination plans, 254–55
burial place, 338
clemency petitions, 164
criticisms of, 10
and elections, 95–97, 188–89, 189–90
and emancipation, 1, 165–66, 189–90, 245
and fears of tyranny, 198, 244–46
horoscope, 213
inaugurations, 5, 105, 178, 221, 223–27
legacy of assassination, 337–38
memorialization of, 339–40
and onset of the Civil War, 111–12
remains carried to Illinois, 322
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 224, 229–30, 263–64, 269, 325
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 218, 224
Lincoln, Sarah Bush, 336
Lincoln, Tad, 139, 141, 256
Lincoln, Willie, 229
The Lincoln Conspiracy (book and film), 335–36
Lincoln Memorial, 339
Linton, Samuel, 331
Lister, Thomas, 213
Little, Horace C., 104
Lloyd, John, 215, 274
Lobdell, Charles, 246
Locke, John, 22
“Lost Cause” ideology, 334–35
Louis XIV, 245
Love, George B., 209–10
Lucas, Charlie, 294
Lucas, Daniel, 400n4
Lucas, Virginia, 400n4
Lucas, William, 292–94
Luckett, Joseph, 140–41
Lucretia Borgia (Hugo), 42
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 59, 103, 120, 160, 287
Machodoc Creek, 286
Maddern, Lizzie, 169
Mahoney, Ella V., 10–11, 14, 24
Marat, Jean-Paul, 248
The Marble Heart, 89, 120, 138–40, 161
Marje Victoria (schooner), 251
Markens, Isaac, 335, 400n4
marksmanship of Booth, 28
Marshall, Caleb, 184–85
Marshall, John, 48
Marshall Theatre and Booth’s acting career, 45–48, 49–52, 54–56, 59, 61, 62–63, 88–89, 137–38
and Booth’s apprenticeship, 4
and Booth’s firing, 82
and the Bossieux family, 66
and the John Brown affair, 68–70
stage manager, 85
Mars rover mission, 339
Martin, Patrick C., 185, 205, 215–16
martyrdom, 338
Mary Provost Theatre, 123, 124–25, 128, 129
material success of Booth, 5, 163–64, 172–74
Mathews, John and Booth’s acting career, 174
and Booth’s alcohol use, 251
and Booth’s assassination plans, 257, 260–61, 413n87
and Booth’s character, 153, 218
and Booth’s funeral, 331
and Booth’s politics, 166
charity of, 172–73
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 207, 214, 238
reaction to assassination, 282
and stage influence on Booth’s politics, 248
Mathias Point, Virginia, 287, 421n59
“Maud Muller” (Whittier), 228
May, John Frederick, 138–39, 317–18
Maynadier, George Y., 17, 18, 209–10
Maynard, Nettie C., 404n53
Mayo, Joseph, 69
McArdle, Joseph, 214
McCann, Walter E., 12, 125
McClelland, George, 189–90
McCloskey, J. J., 123–27
McCollum, James Clarke, 156
McCormick, J. B., 7, 159–60
McCoy, John W., 330
McCullough, John and Beall’s execution, 221
and Booth’s acting career, 43, 157
and Booth’s alcohol use, 251
on Booth’s female admirers, 154
and Booth’s personality, 254
and Booth’s politics, 36
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 231, 241
and Lincoln’s second inauguration, 227–28
and the Richmond Grays, 75
and stage influence on Booth’s politics, 248
views on the war, 214
McCunn, John H., 196–97
McGee, Susan, 288
McGowan, Theodore, 263
McKelway, St. Clair, 325, 326
McNeilly, James H., 400n4
McVicker, James H., 120–21, 198, 250
Mears, Henry W., 332
Mears, Thomas Y., 171–72, 183, 185
Mencken, H. L., 10
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), 25, 59, 103
Merrick, Henry, 254
Methodism, 32
Metropolitan Hotel, 234
Miles, George H., 51
Miles, John Thomas, 235
Miles, R. E. J., 104
military draft, 2, 113, 187, 208, 214, 245
military service, 4
militias, 65, 111
Milius, Helen C., 415n100
Miller, Erasmus, 134
Millington, John, 311–13
Mills, Clark, 334
Mills, Samuel, 110–11
Milton School for Boys, 25–27
Missouri Republican, 120
Mitchell, George (cousin), 164
Mitchell, James (uncle), 144
Mitchell, Maggie, 51, 57–58, 88–89, 94, 146, 247
Mitchell, Mary, 88–89
Monroe, James, 65
Monthly Planet Reader and Astrological Journal, 213
Montreal, Canada, 185–89, 252
Montreal Star, 186
Mordaunt, Frank, 141
Morris, B. F., 114
Morris, Clara, 145–46, 153, 157, 158
Mortimer, Ike, 61
Mortimer, Nellie, 156
Morton, O. P., 239–40
Mosby, John S., 222, 255, 291–93, 295–96, 308
Moses, George, 398n69
Mowatt, Anna Cora, 54
Moxley, Basil, 327
Moxley, Thomas L., 46, 50, 52, 55, 63–64
Mudd, Frances, 202
Mudd, Samuel A. and Booth’s alcohol use, 251
and Booth’s escape from Washington, 275–78, 281, 289, 291, 394n9
and Booth’s injury, 416n109
captured, 284
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 190, 192–93, 201–5, 238
pardoned, 325
and recovery of Booth’s remains, 327
testimony against Surratt, 394n12
trial and sentence, 323–24
Mudd, Sarah, 276, 278
Munroe, Frank, 316
Munroe, Seaton, 316
Murdoch, James E., 50–52, 70, 83, 142
Murphy, Con, 166
Murray, Herman Stump, 209
Murray, Martha, 414n91
My Fellow Clerk, 85
Nailor, Allison, 274
Nanjemoy Creek, 286–87
Napoleon Bonaparte, 245, 248
Napoleon III, 187, 248–49
National Hotel, 243, 253, 259
National Intelligencer and Booth’s politics, 260
and Coyle, 138
criticisms of Lincoln, 245
on Forrest’s performance, 214
praise of Booth’s acting, 157, 161
reaction to assassination, 282
and responses to Lincoln’s assassination, 281–82
National Theatre, 88, 251
Native Americans, 171
nativist politics, 35–36
Navy Yard Bridge, 236, 270–73
Neafie, A. J. A., 50, 118
Neugart
en, Herman, 306, 310, 312
New Chestnut Street Theatre, 136
Newman, Littleton, 181–82
New National Theatre, 138
New Orleans, Louisiana, 168–69
A New Way to Pay Old Debts, 59
New York Clipper on Booth’s funeral, 331
on Booth’s health, 171
on Booth’s Othello, 61
on Canning’s Dramatic Company, 89
criticisms of Booth, 127
on Fanny Brown, 147
on Forrest, 136
on the Irving assault, 108
on Marshall Theatre productions, 47
praise of Booth, 94, 132, 160, 162
reaction to assassination, 282
on Shakespeare statue benefit, 197
on stage fighting injuries, 104
on Sullivan, 58
on “the Irving,” 106
on Western sisters, 83
New York Day-Book, 111
New York Evening Post, 198
New-York Freeman’s Journal and Catholic Register, 215
New York Herald, 113–14, 125–26
New York Leader, 194
New York Sunday Mercury, 107
New York Times and attempts to recover Booth’s remains, 326
on Buchanan kidnapping plot, 179
defense of Booth’s character, 2
on Langdon, 49
praise of Booth, 128
on recovery of Booth’s remains, 329
on Shakespeare statue benefit, 197
New York Times and Messenger, 128, 162
New York Tribune, 128, 134, 162, 187–88, 197
New York World, 325, 326
Nichols, John W., 181
Nichols II, Czar of Russia, 336
Nicolay, John G., 140, 223, 229, 338
Nightingale Minstrels, 84
9th Virginia Cavalry, 295
Norcross, Addie, 149, 150, 154
North American Gazette, 137
Oakington (estate), 134
Oatley, Fred, 316
O’Brien, Frank P., 90
O’Bryan, Martha, 221
O’Bryan, Martha, 400n4
Observation Hill, Baltimore, 105
Oglesby, Richard, 338
Ohio Volunteer Militia, 175
oil business, 171–72, 183–84, 189, 191, 193, 242, 250–51
O’Laughlen, Michael captured, 283
death, 325
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 177, 179, 181, 200, 213, 231–32, 235–37, 239, 242, 243
trial and sentence, 323
Old Capitol Prison, 224, 324
Onderdonk, Henry, 33
1,000 Milliners Wanted for the Fraser River Gold Diggins, 47
Order of the American Knights, 207
Orsini, Felice, 248–49
Osgood, Sam, 87
Othello (Shakespeare), 43, 103, 120
Ould, Robert, 282
Our American Cousin, 58, 263, 267
Our Gal, 52
Owens, John E., 152, 163
Pallen, Isabella, 48, 52, 68, 145
Pallen, Montrose, 186
Panic of 1857, 44
Parady, Emory, 312–13
parents of Booth, 11–14
Parish, Roswell, 225
Parker, John F., 264
Parr, D. Preston, 222
paternalism, 27
Peacock, James, 169
Peddicord, John M., 319
Pegram, William M., 330
Pelby, Rosalie, 20
Pennoyer, Kate, 52
Peterson, William, 214
Petrucci, Ascanio, 42
Peyton, Sarah Jane, 298
Phelps, H. P., 104–5
Philadelphia Press, 137, 202
Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch, 45
Phillips, Israel B., 63
Phillips, Miles T., 66, 69, 86
Phillips, Wendell, 151
phlegmonous erysipelas, 182–83
Phoenix Hall, 56
Pilgrim, James, 40, 52, 85, 86, 92
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), 249
Pitt, John, 261
Play Bill, 114
Plutarch, 247, 255
Poindexter, Parke, 79
political extremism, 13, 97, 151–52, 163, 253
Pomeroy, Marcus M., 151, 165, 399n3
Poore, Benjamin Perley, 398n69
Port Conway, 294
Porter, Albert G., 132–33
Porter, David D., 169
Porter, George L., 321–22
Portland Theatre, 103–4
Potomac River and Booth’s burial, 320–21, 333
and Booth’s escape from Washington, 279, 280, 285, 286–88
as Civil War border, 169, 215
and the John Brown affair, 67, 73
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 180, 192, 200–201, 204, 207–8, 211–12, 243
and southern Maryland, 189–90
Potter, John F., 185–86
Pound, Ezra, 9
Powell, Lewis and Booth’s alcohol use, 251
and Booth’s assassination plans, 254–55, 256–58, 260–62, 274, 281, 414n91
burial place, 324
captured, 283
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 222–23, 232, 235–37, 239, 241–43, 401n16, 401n23
trial and sentence, 323
Powhatan Hotel, 63
Presbyterianism, 48, 53
Preston, J. T. L., 78, 79
Price, Ann, 26
Prior, Edwin C., 120–21
prisoners of war, 164
Provost, Mary, 110
Pry, Lucy, 134–35
public response to Lincoln’s assassination, 281–82
Pumphrey, James W., 273–74
Quakers, 25
Quantrille, Thomas, 258
Queen, Billy (son), 191, 200
Queen, Frank, 83, 104, 106–7, 119, 147, 281–82
Queen, Joseph, 190
Queen, Mary, 191
Queen, William, 190–91, 192–93, 200, 204
Quesenberry, Elizabeth, 288–89
Quinn, Catherine, 113
race issues, 10–11, 46, 256–57. See also African Americans
Rafaelle, 94
Randall, James Ryder, 337
Rankin, McKee, 252
Ranlett, William H., 29
Rappahannock River, 294
Rath, Christian, 222–23
Rathbone, Henry, 265–66
Raybold, Thomas, 257, 259–60
Reconstruction, 256, 337
Redford, Pat, 84
Redpath, James, 204
Reed, Isaac G., 129, 133, 162
Reed, Roland, 136
Reignolds, Kate, 86, 155
religion, 32–33, 308
Republican Party, 95
Richard III (Shakespeare) and Booth’s acting career, 37, 41–42, 45, 56, 59, 72, 85, 89, 92, 94, 103, 106, 120, 122–23, 125–28, 130–31, 139–40, 159, 161–62
and Booth’s humor, 156
and criticisms of Booth, 168
and stage influence on Booth’s politics, 250
Richardson, Leon B., 398n69
Richardson, Thomas E., 239–40
Rich Hill (estate), 278–80, 284
Richmond, Virginia, 48, 64–65, 252–56, 261
Richmond Dispatch, 47, 63
Richmond Enquirer, 54, 64, 82, 85
Richmond Grays Booth’s social involvement with, 65–66
and Ewell’s corps, 261
and the John Brown affair, 67–73, 75–79, 81–82
and “Sic semper tyrannis” motto, 245
and Wallace, 149
Richmond Light Infantry Blues, 65
Richmond Stock Company, 62
Richmond Whig, 53, 54, 82, 84–85, 246, 282
Ridgeway, Robert, 54
Ridgway, Titus, 172
Rifles and Rifle Practice (Wilcox), 111
Ringgold, Benjamin, 49, 61
Ritchie, William, 54
The Robbers, 120, 128, 132
Rob
erts, J. B., 92
Robey, Franklin, 279, 280
Robinson, George F., 258
Robson, Stuart (Henry Stuart), 21–22, 37, 94, 109, 135, 157–58, 250
Rochester Evening Express, 128
Rogers, Elizabeth, 12–17, 330–31
Rogers, Rowland, 15
Rollins, Bettie, 306
Rollins, William, 294, 306
Romanoff, Nicholas, 336
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 89, 92, 132, 146, 160
Rose, Frank Oakes, 154, 327
Ruggles, Mortimer, 295–97, 298–99, 303–4, 323
Russell, Edmund, 52
Ryan, Kate, 130
Ryer, George, 123
Sadler, George, 78, 79
Sala, George Augustus, 187
Sandburg, Carl, 9–10
Sanders, George N., 187
Satan in Paris, 83
Sawyer, Charles Pike, 198
Schad’s Garden, 66
Schurmann, Gus, 139
Schurz, Carl, 337
Scott, Abraham, 26
Scott, Ellen, 321
Scott, Winfield, 408n12
The Sea of Ice, 52, 54
Seaton, Josephine, 245
secessionism, 97–100, 104–5, 113
Second Manassas, battle of, 164
Sertorius (Brown), 99
Seward, Fanny, 255
Seward, William on assassination, 246
attacked by Powell, 274
and Beall’s execution, 220
and Booth’s assassination plans, 258, 261–62, 281
on legacy of Lincoln’s assassination, 338
and onset of the Civil War, 110
Sewell, Richard H., 398n69
Seymour, Charles B., 128
Seymour, William, 51
Shakespeare, William and Booth’s acting career, 5, 37, 41–43, 58–59, 76, 100, 120
and Booth’s ethics, 33
and Booth’s politics, 247
and memorialization of Booth, 8
statue benefit, 7
Sheldon, Brett, 340
Shettel, James, 18
siblings of Booth, 13–14
“Sic semper tyrannis” motto, 7, 197, 245–47, 266, 281
Simonds, Joseph H. and Beall’s execution, 221
and Booth’s acting career, 121, 136, 174
and Booth’s finances, 163
and Booth’s health, 168
and Booth’s personality, 250–51
and Booth’s properties, 183
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 231
and Mears, 171
Sires, Henry, 171, 172
6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 105
“Sixty Years and More of Shakespeare” (Sawyer), 198
slavery. See also abolitionism; Emancipation Proclamation antislavery legislation, 208
and Booth’s politics, 100–102, 113, 140, 165, 257
and causes of Civil War, 95, 100–102
construction labor, 91
and emancipation, 1, 140, 165–66, 189–91, 245
and the Fugitive Slave Act, 27
Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth Page 63
