Baptist Alley, 113, 258
Barnes, Joseph K., 14, 125, 133, 260, 261–63, 268, 269, 270, 313(n25)
Barnum’s City Hotel (Baltimore), 17, 62, 63
Bates, David Homer, 98
Bates, Edward, 212, 213
Bates, Finis L., 246, 247–50
Baxter, Warner, 236
Beantown, 136, 137
Bedell, Grace, 286
Beecher, Henry Ward, 14–15
Bel Air Academy, 30
Bel Air farm, 29, 30
Bell, William, 126, 176–77
Belle Isle prison camp, 4, 42, 45
Belle Plaine, 254
Benham, William Burton, 234, 235
Benjamin, Judah P., 52–53, 56, 58, 81, 88, 301(n31)
Bennett, A., 54
Benning’s Bridge, 86, 306(n5)
Bergantino, Bob, 191
Bermuda: Confederate yellow fever plot and, 48, 49, 50
Bigley, Daniel, 173, 174
Bingham, John A., 184, 216, 220, 225
biological warfare. See yellow fever plot
Bishop, Charles B., 258
Bittersdorf, August, 99
Black, Frederick, 249
Blackburn, Luke Pryor, 46–47, 48–49, 50–52, 53, 54
black flag warfare: Confederate treatment of Black prisoners of war and, 41–42; Thomas Conrad’s capture plot, 55–58; conspiracy trial of Confederate agents and, 223; Emancipation Proclamation and, 38, 41; Harney’s bomb plot, 58; Jefferson Davis’s views of, 54–55; Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid and, 4, 44–46; Lincoln and Davis as legitimate targets, 42; Lincoln’s “Order of Retaliation” and, 42; origin of term, 296(n13); Wistar raid and, 4, 43; yellow fever plot, 46–54
Blacks: enfranchisement, 91; Hancock’s appeal for assistance in locating Booth, 178–79; Lincoln’s funeral procession in New York and, 283–84
Black sailors, 300–301(n9)
Black troops: at Fort Jefferson, Samuel Mudd’s escape and, 236, 238; as prisoners of war, 41–42. See also United States Colored Troops
Bland, William, 243
Bland’s Boarding House, 31
Bliss, D. Willard, 313(n25)
blockade running, 48
bodyguards, Lincoln’s: Thomas Conrad’s capture plot and, 57, 58; William Crook’s account of Lincoln’s last night, 102–4; Lincoln’s assassination and, 107, 116, 123; Lincoln’s aversion to, 21; military units, 22–23; police guards, 23, 116
Bolton, James, 121
bomb plots, 5, 58, 89, 90–91, 303(n66)
bombs: Confederate bombing of City Point, 89–90
Booth, Adelaide. See Delannoy, Adelaide
Booth, Asia, 27, 30, 62, 71, 263, 309(25), 324(n21). See also Clarke, Asia Booth
Booth, Edwin, 27, 30, 34, 63, 71; photograph controversy and, xiii, 153–54, 196; recovery of Booth’s body, 257, 258
Booth, Elizabeth, 299(nl2)
Booth, Frederick, 299(nl2)
Booth, Henry Byron, 299(nl2)
Booth, John Wilkes (see also capture plots; Lincoln, Abraham, assassination of): 57–58; absence of standard records on, 85; acting career, 26, 35–36, 37, 59, 60, 107, 108, 311(nl2); Arnold’s and Atzerodt’s testimony linking, xii-xiii, 172–73, 239; baptism of, 31; birth of, 29; Edwin Booth and, 71; Booth’s letters of introduction to, xii-xiii, 73, 74, 172, 173, 305(n8); in Boston, 61, 62; John Brown’s execution and, 36; burial place, 244; Confederate underground and, 7; in conspiracy theories, 2; death of, 192, 203–4, 265–66; draft of speech in response to Lincoln’s election, 31–33; early life, 30–31, 34–35; Edward Gorsuch’s murder and, 31, 32–33, 34; erysipelas and, 62, 63; family history, 27–30, 299(nl2); first meetings between, xii-xiii, 74–78, 79–80; Lucy Hale and, 205, 324(n21); Harney bomb plot and, 90–91; hatred of Lincoln, 35, 36–38, 91; letters written on April 14 (1865), 108, 111; Mudd’s admission of recognizing Booth during his escape, 77, 234–36; Mudd’s assistance in Booth’s escape, 144–45, 150, 151–52, 155; Mudd’s assistance in Booth’s recruitment of co-conspirators, 77–80, 81; Mudd’s denials of being intimate with Booth, 154, 239–40; Mudd’s interviews with federal authorities about Booth, 147–48, 153–54; Mudd’s overall assistance to Booth, 6–7; Mudd’s statement admitting knowledge of Booth, 154; in New Orleans, 251; in New York, 88, 89; oil investments, 61, 63; personality of, 34, 35; photographs of, xiii, 153–54, 195–96, 263–64, 317(n41); Edman Spangler and, 178; Isabel Sumner and, 62, 63; throat problems, 37; as white supremacist, 7; Louis Wiechmann and, 139, 140–41
————assassination of Lincoln: activities on April 14 (1865), 108–12; early identification by federal authorities, 129, 130; movements in Ford’s Theatre, 113–18; origins of decision to murder Lincoln, 88–91; plans to murder Andrew Johnson and, 111, 112; reflections on, 162–63; shooting of Lincoln, 12, 118, 120; weapon used in, 12, 118, 296(nl)
————body of: autopsy of, 261–62; belongings found on, 205; burial in Green Mount Cemetery, 258–59; burial in Washington Arsenal, 256–57; claims of false identification, 245, 246, 250–51, 252–53, 255, 256, 259, 261; examinations and identification of, 250, 258, 259, 260–61, 262–63; exhumation and transport to Baltimore, 257–58; hand tattoo, 263–65; Herold’s identification of, 265–66; neckscar, 260–61, 330(n41); photographs of, 263–64; recent petition to exhume, 245, 266–67; transport to Washington, 205–6
————cover-up/escape theories concerning: Basil Moxley and, 256, 258, 259; David E. George/John St. Helen story, 245–50; Frederick May and, 260–61; recent attempts to exhume Booth’s body, 245, 266–67; Unsolved Mysteries television show and, 246, 250; William Allen story, 255–56; Wilson Kenzie story, 250–55
—escape following Lincoln’s murder, 161 (map), 179; Booth’s death, 192, 203–4, 265–66; Booth’s moustache and whiskers, 147–48, 153, 318(n20); Sam Cox and, 156–58, 159, 160, 304(n32); crossing of the Potomac, 164—65, 183, 184, 319(n30); federal pursuit, 132–33, 146–47, 152–53, 193–200, 201–4; flight from Washington, 127, 132, 135–36, 313(n33), 315(n3); Garrett’s farm, 190, 191–93, 198, 201–4; Thomas Harbin and, 185, 187, 305–6(n28); Thomas Jones and, 158, 159–60, 163–65, 304(n32); William Lucas and, 186–87; Mosby’s soldiers and, 188–90; Samuel Mudd and, 144–45, 150, 151–52, 155; Oldroyd’s retracing of, 234; Elizabeth Quesenberry and, 185, 305(n28); Rappahannock ferry, 187–88, 189; Richard Stuart and, 185–86, 187, 321(n22–23.; to Surratt’s Tavern, 137, 142–43
————Ford’s Theatre and: as Booth’s home, 85; Booth’s movements in on April 14 (1865), 113–18; performances at, 88, 107, 108; preparations for Lincoln’s murder, 108–9; shooting of Lincoln, 12, 118, 120
Booth, Joseph Adrian, 30, 31, 258
Booth, Junius, Jr., 27, 30, 62, 63
Booth, Junius Brutus, Sr., 27–30, 298(n5), 299(nl2)
Booth, Mary Ann, 71, 258, 299(nl2). See also Holmes, Mary Ann Booth, Richard (grandfather), 28
Booth, Richard (step-brother), 29–30
Booth, Rosalie, 27, 30, 63, 258
Border States: compensated emancipation and, 39–40
Boston Museum, 59
Boucher, Charles, 231
Bowling Green, 192, 197, 199
Branson, Margaret, 82
Breckinridge, John C., 17
Brooke, Thomas, 315(nl3)
Brown, Charles D., 270, 282
Brown, Henry, 290
Brown, John, 36, 57
Brown and Alexander undertakers, 270
Browning, Orville Hickman, 269
Browning, William A., 111
Bryan, George S., 295(n7)
Bryant, William, 185, 186, 305–6(n28)
Bryantown, 148, 149(map), 151, 152, 153, 154
Bryantown Tavern, 74, 75, 79, 133
Buchanan, James, 24, 219
Buckingham, John, 114
Buffalo: mourning of Lincoln, 286
Bull Run, battle of, 128
Bunker, George Washington, 75
Burch, J. Dominic, 74
Bureau of Colored Troops, 41
Burk
e, Ned, 104
Burnett, Henry L., xi, 216, 220, 222, 325(n26)
Burnham, Nathan, 64
Burnside, Ambrose E., 98, 107, 282
Burroughs, Joseph (“John Peanuts”), 114, 118, 178
Burtles, William, 150, 151, 152, 156
Butler, Benjamin F., 43
Butler, John, 281
Byrne, William, 17
C. Vanderbit (ship), 206
Calvert, George, 140
Campbell, Robert Anson, 331(n56)
Campbell Hospital, 85, 86–87
Canada: Booth’s contact with Confederate agents, 71–72, 73–74; Confederate agents in, 46, 52–53; Confederate yellow fever plot and, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50–51; Martin-Kane raid and, 72
Canby, E.R.S., 308(nl0)
Cantor, Joseph, 155
Capitol building (Washington), 274–75
capture plots (see also assassination plots; Lincoln, Abraham, assassination of): against Jefferson Davis, 43, 44; against Lincoln, 25–26, 55–58
————Booth’s: Campbell Hospital scheme, 85–88; Confederate agents in Montreal and, 71–72, 73–74; financing of, 73–74; formation of, 58–59; Thomas Jones and, 159; meeting of conspirators in Washington, 83–84; origins of decision to murder Lincoln, 88–91; planned escape route through Maryland, 64–65; prisoner of war exchanges and, 72, 73; recruitment of co-conspirators, 61–64, 73, 74–82, 303(n59); Soldiers’ Home and, 26, 63; Surratt’s public lectures on, 232–33
Carpenter, Francis, 103
Carrington, Edward C., 232
Carter family, 192, 199
Cartter, David Kellogg, 13, 126, 128, 129
Cawood, Charles H., 56
Chaconas, Joan L., 307(n20)
Chancellorsville, battle of, 43
Chapel Point, 194
Charles County (MD): anti-Lincoln sentiment in, 64; Booth’s planned escape route, 64–65; Booth’s recruitment of co-conspirators in, 73, 74—82; Confederate soldiers from, 318(n7); Confederate underground and Mudd family activities, 65–68
Charles Street Theatre, 35
Chase, Salmon P., 87
Chevalier (optical maker), 142, 315(n30)
Chicago: mourning for Lincoln, 287–88
cholera morbus, 286, 333(n68)
Christiana Riot, 33–34, 299(n25). See also Gorsuch, Edward
Christy, George, 107
Christy’s Minstrels, 107
Chubb, Lewis L., 168
City Point: Confederate bombing, 89–90; troop reviews and incidents involving Mary Lincoln, 97–98
Civil War: cholera morbus, 333(n68); Confederate bombing of City Point, 89–90; Johnson declares officially ended, 308(10); Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid, 3–4, 44—46; Lincoln’s amnesty proclamation, 309(25); Martin-Kane raid, 72; military trials and, 212; Old Washington Arsenal and, 214; Stoneman raid, 43; surrender at Appomattox, 94; Wistar raid, 4, 43. See also black flag warfare; Confederacy; prisoners of war
Clampitt, John W., 219, 221
Clarke, Asia Booth, 34, 35, 36, 37. See also Booth, Asia
Clarke, John Sleeper, 98, 107, 309(25)
Clarke, Virginia, 192
Clarvoe, John, 173
Clay, Clement C., 46, 223
Clay, Henry, 39
Cleary, William, 50, 51, 54, 223
Clendenin, David, 216
Cleveland: mourning of Lincoln, 286
Cleydael, 185
Clinton, H.V, 61–62
Clopper Mill, 168
Cloud, Daniel Mountjoy, 56–57
Cobb, Silas T., 131, 135–36
Colfax, Schuyler, 94, 99, 102, 103
Columbus: mourning of Lincoln, 286–87
Come Retribution (Tidwell, Hall & Gaddy), 3–5, 61, 88, 189
Commission on Rewards for Apprehension of Lincoln Assassins and Others, xii
“Committee on the Order of the Procession,” 289
compensated emancipation, 39–40
Comstock, Cyrus B., 216, 325(n27)
Confederacy: agents in Canada, 46, 52–53; Black prisoners of war and, 41–42; blockade running, 48; bombing of City Point, 89–90; Border States and, 39; Emancipation Proclamation and, 38, 40–41; Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid, 44–46; Lincoln conspiracy trial and, 223—25; plans to capture Lincoln at Soldier’s Home, 25–26; prisoner of war exchanges and, 72–73; public reaction to Lincoln’s assassination, 16; Kensey Stewart and, 52–54; surrender at Appomattox, 94; Torpedo Bureau, 5, 89, 90; yellow fever plot, 46–54
Confederate Secret Service: agents in Canada, 46, 52–53; bombing of City Point, 89–90; Booth’s contact with agents in Canada, 71–72, 73–74; Thomas Conrad’s capture plot, 55–58; conspiracy trial of Jefferson Davis and Canadian agents, 223–25; financing of Booth’s capture plot, 73–74; funding of Canadian agents, 73, 301–2(n31); Thomas Harbin and, 78; Thomas Jones and, 158; plots against Lincoln and, 3–5. See also Confederate underground
Confederate Signal Service, 158
Confederate underground: assistance to Booth, 7; Samuel Cox and, 65, 150, 304(n32); Patrick Martin and, 73; in Maryland, 65–66, 68; Samuel Mudd and, 145;John Surratt and, 80–81, 138. See also Confederate Secret Service
Conger, Everton Judson, 193, 195 196—200, 201–3, 204, 205, 206
Conover, Sanford. See Dunham, Charles A.
Conrad, Thomas Nelson, 26, 55–58, 59, 188, 219
conspiracy laws, 209–11
Cook, B.C., 235
Cooke, Jay, 73, 83
Copperheads, 220
Corbett, Boston, 197, 204, 205
Corey, John, 122
Corsican Brothers, The (play), 59
Cottingham, George, 146
Cox, Samuel, 67; Booth’s escape and, 156—58, 159, 160, 247; called “Captain,” 150, 317(n27); Confederate underground and, 65, 150, 304(n32); federal raid on, 150–51, 318(n8); murder of Jack Scroggins, 151, 317(n30); slaves owned by, 316(n26), 318(n9)
Cox, Samuel, Jr., 156, 159, 235–36
Cox, Walter S., 219, 221
Crane, Charles H., 195–96, 269, 313(n25)
Crane, Cordial, 61
Creswell, John A.J., 98, 99
Cronin, J.R., 23
Crook, William H., 23, 102–4
Crowell J.H., 269
Curtin, Andrew, 280
Curtis, Edward, 270
Cushman, Charlotte, 330(n41)
Daggett, Albert, 128, 129
Dahlgren, John A., 44
Dahlgren, Ulric, 4, 44–45, 296(nl3), 301(n27)
Daly, Charles P., 104
Dana, Charles A., 100–101, 309(n37)
Dana, David D., 133, 146, 147, 194
Davenport, E.L., 86
Davis, Charles E., 279
Davis, David, 279
Davis, Jefferson: Border States and, 39; capture of, 223; capture plots against Lincoln and, 25–26, 56, 58; Confederacy’s surrender and, 94; Confederate Secret Service theory and, 3–5; Emancipation Proclamation and, 40–41; funding of Confederate agents and, 301 (n31); imprisonment at Fortress Monroe, 225; Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid and, 3–4, 45; Lincoln conspiracy trial and, 223–25; Edwin Stanton and, 96; Union plots to capture, 43; views of black flag warfare, 54–55; yellow fever plot and, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 302(n48)
Davis, Peregrine, 183, 184, 321(n4)
Dearborn Independent (newspaper), 249
death threats, to Lincoln, 16–17
Deery, John, 34
Delannoy, Adelaide, 28, 29–30
Delaware: as a Border State, 39
Dennison, William, 95
Derby, George W., 310(n44)
Derickson, Capt., 22
Deringer, Henry, 296(nl)
derringer: used by Booth, 12, 118, 296(nl)
Devoe, Eli, 175
Dillard, R.K., 89
District of Columbia: martial law in, 324(n7)
Dix, General, 283
Dixon, Elizabeth, 124, 125, 269
Dodd, Levi Axtell, 235
Doherty, Edward P., 193, 195, 196–200, 201–3, 205, 322(nl3)
Dole, William P., 92
Donn, AT., 23
Donn, Alphonso, 270
Doster, William E., 217–18, 219, 221, 307(n20)
Douglas, Stephen A., 310(n44)
Dunham, Charles A., 224–25
Dutton, George W., 76–77, 234
Dwight, William, 151
Dyer, Jeremiah, 238
Dyer, Sara Frances, 305(nl4)
E.H. Jones (locomotive), 285
Eckert, Thomas, 105, 126–27, 129, 194, 206, 257, 313(n31)
Edwards, Elizabeth Todd, 272
Eighth United States Colored Artillery, 279
Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 287
Eighty-second United States Colored Troops, 236
Eisenschiml, Otto, 2–3, 129, 153–54, 196
Ekin, James, 216
Ellsler, John, 61
emancipation: compensated, 39–40
Emancipation Proclamation, 6, 38, 40–41
enfranchisement: of Blacks, 91
Episcopal Church, 273, 332(n20)
erysipelas, 62, 63
Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth, The (Bates), 249
Everybody’s Friend (play), 98
Ewing, Thomas, Jr., xiii, 77, 172, 213, 215, 218, 221–22, 236
ex parte Milligan. See Milligan case
Farewell to Lincoln (Searcher), 274
Farrell, Francis R., 146, 148, 152
Felton, Samuel, 18
Fergueson, James P., 173
Ferrandini, Cipriano, 17, 18
Fido (Lincoln’s dog), 290, 334(n85)
Field, Maunsell, 268–69
Fifteenth Virginia Cavalry, 189
54th Massachusetts Infantry, 317(n29)
Fillmore, Millard, 285–86
First District of Columbia Cavalry, 195
First Florida Infantry, 82
First United States Artillery, 250, 251–52, 253
Fisher, George P., 232
Fitzpatrick, Honora, 174, 178
Fletcher, John, 130–32
Florida (ship), 235
Floyd, John B., 24, 219
Foard, Norval E., 258, 259
Forbes, Charles, 104, 116, 120, 162
Ford, Frank, 117
Ford, Harry Clay, 85, 107, 108, 109, 117, 258
Ford, Henry, 249, 329(n9)
Ford, John T., 85, 107, 178, 249, 258
Ford, S.T., 313(n25)
Ford’s Theatre: as Booth’s home, 85; Booth’s movements on April 14 (1865), 113–18; Booth’s performances at, 88, 107, 108; Booth’s preparations for Lincoln’s murder, 108–9; Booth’s shooting of Lincoln, 12, 118, 120; carrying of wounded Lincoln from, 12, 122–23; description of the president’s box, 109; history of, 107–8; Charles Leale at, 119–20, 121, 122, 123; Lincoln and Grant at, 98, 107; Lincoln’s entrance on April 14 (1865), 119–20; Lincoln’s frequent attendance at, 106–7; meeting of conspirators at, 83; treatment of wounded Lincoln at, 121–23
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