and John Brown, 67, 77, 79
and Junius Booth, 13, 15
and Lincoln’s politics, 240
Sleeper, John Clarke. See Clarke, John Sleeper (brother-in-law)
Slocum, Albert, 143
Smiley, A. W., 221, 249–50
Smiley, H. Stearns, 19
Smith, John L., 318
Smithsonian Institution, 229
Smoot, Edward, 211
Smoot, Richard M., 211
smuggling, 234–35, 291. See also blockades and blockade-runners
Society of Friends, 25
Soldier’s Home, 179–81, 229, 233
The Son of Malta, 85
Soper’s Hill, 274
The South, 330
Southall, Joseph W., 65, 69
South Carolina, 100
Spangler, Edman, 207–8, 268, 401n23
Spinner, Francis, 108
spiritualism, 228–30, 244–45, 403n47
Stafford, John F., 121
Stafford, Patrick, 316
stage fighting and Booth’s acting career, 120–21, 131, 159–60
and Booth’s childhood, 31
and Booth’s humor, 156
and Booth’s stage presence, 154–55
and criticisms of Booth, 126–27
and Fanny Brown, 147
injuries from, 7, 104, 126–27, 156
stage names, 39–40, 46–47
St. Albans, Vermont, 186
St. Andrew’s Society of Montgomery, 93–94
Stanford, Francis A., 89–90
Stanton, Edwin and Beall’s execution, 220
and Booth’s burial, 320, 325, 333
and hunt for Booth, 324
and identification of Booth’s body, 316
and Lincoln’s protective escort, 181
and travel restrictions, 156
Stanwood, Frank, 130–31
Starr, Ellen, 147
states’ rights, 96
St. Charles College, 204
St. Charles Theatre, 168
Stebbins, E. M., 321, 322
Steinbrigge, John Anton, 315
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 179
Stephenson, James, 33
Stewart, Joseph B., 269
St. Helen, John, 334–35
Still Waters Run Deep, 238
St. Lawrence Hall, 186, 252
St. Mary’s Church, 192
Stoddart, James H., 45
Stone, Frederick, 256–57
Stonewall Bridge, 113
Stout, George L., 21, 28
The Stranger, 132
St. Timothy’s Hall, 29–31, 165, 176
Stuart, Henry (Stuart Robson), 21–22, 37, 94, 109, 135, 157–58, 250
Stuart, J. E. B., 330
Stuart, Margaret, 291
Stuart, Richard H., 290–94, 323–24
Stuart, William, 193–94, 197
Stump, Herman, 34–35, 111, 112–13, 116, 134, 209
Stump, Mary North, 209
Sullivan, Barry, 50, 58–59, 70
Sumner, Isabel, 148–49, 182
superstition, 26
surgery, 139
Surratt, Anna, 223, 326
Surratt, John H., Jr. and Booth’s escape from Washington, 275, 290, 297
and Booth’s politics, 253–54
escape and capture, 323
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 179, 193, 202–6, 208, 211–12, 215–16, 231–37, 239, 240–43
and Lincoln’s second inauguration, 223–24
and Powell, 222–23
and “Sic semper tyrannis” motto, 246
Surratt, Mary arrested, 284
and Booth’s assassination plans, 260
and Booth’s escape from Washington, 274
burial place, 324
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 204–5, 216, 240–41
remains returned to family, 326
tavern owned by, 215
trial and execution, 323
Surratt Tavern, 204–5, 215, 242, 274–75
survival stories, 334–36
Swan, Oswald, 278–79
Swann, Mary, 279
Taliaferro, William B., 72, 73, 74
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare), 156, 160
Taylor, John O., 70–71, 75, 77
Taylor, Joseph W., 180
temperance, 63, 96
Texas, 420n39
theatrical career, 4
“Then and Now” (Copperhead song), 191–92
They Knew Lincoln (Washington), 1
13th New York Cavalry, 277
Thomas, Augustus, 117
Thomas, Henry, 144
Thompson, Jacob, 187, 252
Thompson, John C., 190, 205
Thornton, Jim, 297
Three Fast Men, 83
“Three Glorious Days,” 108
Ticknor, Howard Malcolm, 132
Tiernan, Michael F., 167, 249
Tilton, Edward L., 123–24, 125, 126–27
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 54
Todd, George B., 316
Tompkins, Orlando, 252
Toombs, Robert, 92, 95
Too Much for Good Nature, 160
“To Whom It May Concern” (Booth), 233
Town and Country; or, Which Is Best?, 47
Townsend, George Alfred book about the assassination, 340
and Booth’s acting career, 41, 43
and Booth’s attitude toward women, 144
on Booth’s charisma, 149
on Booth’s childhood, 17
and Booth’s politics, 35
Harbin interview, 201
and the John Brown affair, 81–82
and Jones’s involvement in plot, 324
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 179
and shooting accident, 90
on southern Maryland, 190
on theater in the South, 64
Tremont House, 150
Trotter, Peter, 202
Truman, Helen, 206–7, 216
Tucker, Beverly, 186
Tudor Hall (house) Booth family’s departure from, 37, 99
Booth’s return to, 133
construction, 29, 207
and death of Junius Booth, 33–34
historical sources on, 10
and onset of the Civil War, 113
Wharton’s visit to, 165
Turner, Henry A., 202
12th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 112
22nd Army Corps, 273
Uncas, 247
Union and Advertiser, 103–4
unionist sentiment, 97–102
Urquhart, Charles, 315
U.S. Constitution, 27
U.S. House of Representatives, 36, 209, 223, 225
U.S. Senate, 225
USS Juniper, 286, 421n59
USS Mahopac, 316
USS Montauk, 316–17, 318, 320–21
U.S. Supreme Court, 225, 245
Valentine, Edward V., 6–7, 55, 65, 81
Vallee, Henrietta, 152
Van Bokkelen, Libertus, 29, 31
Van Ness mansion, 236
Varrey, Edwin, 195, 196, 197
Venice Preserved (Otway), 246
Verdi, T. S., 262
Vining, Fanny, 40
Virginia (steam ship), 95
Virginia Military Institute (VMI), 78
voting rights, 6, 256–57
Wagner, Henry C., 330
Walcot, Charles, 196, 197
Wallace, Charles M., 149
Wallace, Henry John, 16
Wallack, James W., 50, 166, 238
Walnut Street Theatre, 44
Ward, Eliza Mitchell (cousin), 24
Ward, James M., 89
War Department, 324
War Department Rifles, 203
War of 1812, 114
Warren, William, 6, 119, 130–31, 154
Warwick, Charles, 18, 214
Washington, B. B. “Bird,” 81
Washington, George, 81, 244
Washington, John E., 1�
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Washington Arsenal, 320–21, 324
Washington Daily Chronicle, 151
Washington Evening Star, 157–58, 243
Washington Hotel, 230
Washington Navy Yard, 316
Washington Penitentiary, 321, 323
Washington Post, 204, 335
Washington Theater, 140
Watkins, Harry, 55
Watson, John Whitaker, 81
Weaver, Henry A., 154, 174
Weaver, John H., 326, 328–29
Webber, Sarah, 172
Webster, Daniel, 100
Weed, Thurlow, 325
Weekly Post, 91
Weichmann, Louis on Booth’s acting, 161
and Booth’s alcohol use, 251
and Booth’s assassination plan, 246
and Booth’s politics, 253–54
family name, 394n12
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 202, 205, 212, 221, 240–42, 401n23
and Lincoln’s second inauguration, 223, 224
Welles, Gideon, 316
Wells, Henry H., 230
Wells, Jimmy, 57
Wendell, Andrew, 333
Wentworth, John Parker Hale, 228
The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish (Cooper), 57–58, 247
Westall, Edward, 124
Westcott, James D., 186
Western, Helen, 83
Western, Lucille, 83
Westfall, John W., 226
Whalley, William H., 131
Wharton, Jessie, 164–65
Wharton, John O., 165
Wheatley, William, 40–41, 44–45, 50–51, 58, 135
Wheelock, Joseph, 156–57
“When Wilkes Booth Was in Montreal” (Montreal Star), 186
Whistler, Elijah, 10–11
White, Horace, 339
White, Mary, 83
White House, 179–80, 235–36
Whiting, Joseph E., 72, 139–40, 327
Whitlock, Philip, 66, 69, 79–80
Whitman, Walt, 180–81, 239, 338
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 228
Whitton, Joseph, 43, 54
The Wife, 41, 56
Wilkes, Jim, 11
Wilkes, John, 13
Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times, 99, 108
Wilkinson, Morton S., 202–3
William E. Chandler, Republican (Richardson), 398n69
William of Orange, 304
Wilson, Clarence True, 335
Wilson, C. M., 111
Wilson, Francis, 3, 86
Wilson, Woodrow, 10
Winter, William, 37, 61, 128, 194
Winter Garden (theater) and attempts to recover Booth’s remains, 325
benefit performances, 7, 193–98
and Booth’s acting career, 130
and Chester, 210, 215
and Fanny Brown, 147
and reaction to assassination, 282
Wirz, Henry, 324
Wise, Henry A., 67–71, 77–79
Wise, John, 53
Wise, John S., 334, 337, 420n39
Wise, O. Jennings, 53, 65, 82
Withers, William, 151, 267–68
Wood, Matilda Vining, 156
Wood, William P., 224
Woodis Riflemen, 76
Woodruff, Lorenzo F., 96
Woodward, George W., 370n63
Woodward, J. J., 319
Woolsey, William, 36
Wooster, Louise, 94–95, 97–98, 147, 158, 172, 368nn49–50
The World, 129
Wren, Eliza, 63, 83–84
Wren, Ella, 64, 83–84
Wren, George, 83–84, 250
Wright, Martin L., 155, 166
Wright, Rufus, 198
Wyndham, Charles (Charles Culverwell), 141–42, 156
Yancey, William L., 92, 96
Yates, Charles, 212
Young, James, Jr., 17
Zekiah Swamp, 278
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