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Blood on the Moon

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by Edward , Jr. Steers


  ————Fort Jefferson and: attempted escape from, 236–38; imprisonment in, 233, 234; transport to, 76; yellow fever epidemic, 240, 241

  Mudd, Sylvester, 66, 304(n25)

  Mulligan, John, 168

  Murphy, Patrick, 100

  mustard plaster, 124, 313(n22)

  Nanjemoy Creek, 183, 184

  Napoleon, 241

  Napoleon III, 71

  Nasby, Petroleum V., 310(n44)

  Nasby Papers, The (Nasby), 310(n44)

  National Archives Record Administration, xi

  National Detective Police, 193, 195

  National Hotel, 75, 77, 79, 87, 108, 170

  National Intelligencer (newspaper), 108, 111, 113, 162

  National Volunteers, 17

  Navy Yard, 101

  Navy Yard Bridge, 131, 132

  Neely, Mark, E., Jr., 65

  Nelson, Nathan, 33

  New Bern, 47, 49, 51, 54

  New Cathedral Cemetery, 30

  newspapers: descriptions of Lincoln assassination conspirators, 217–18; publication of Samuel Arnold’s memoir, 243; publication of Lincoln assassination trial testimony, 216; reactions to Lincoln’s assassination, 162

  New York City: Booth’s trip to, 88, 89; Confederate clandestine activity and, 88–89; mourning for Lincoln, 282–84

  New York Times (newspaper), 21, 51, 235, 282, 284, 285

  New York World (newspaper), 26

  Nicolay, John G., 93, 272, 283

  Ninth Vermont Infantry, 90

  Ninth Virginia Cavalry, 188, 189

  Norfolk, 47, 49

  Nothey, john, 140, 141, 142

  Notson, William, 269, 313(n25), 331(nl)

  Oak Hill plantation, 155

  Oak Ridge Cemetery, 291

  O’Beirne, James R., 132, 146, 194

  O’Daniel, Frank, 170

  Oglesby, Richard, 102, 279

  oil business, 61

  O’Laughlen, Michael: arrest of, 170, 173, 209; burial place, 244; Campbell Hospital abduction scheme, 85, 88; death of, 327(nl5); defense attorney for, 219, 221; defense case of, 225–26; imprisoned on the Montauk, 206; meeting of conspirators in Washington, 84; newspaper descriptions of, 217; recruitment to Booth’s capture plot, 58, 62–63, 64, 80; sentencing of, 227; transport to Fort Jefferson prison, 76

  Olcott, H.S., 174

  Old Bay Line steamship company, 233

  Old Bob (Lincoln’s horse), 290

  Old Capitol Prison, 55, 65, 90, 158, 168, 209, 219

  Oldroyd, Osborn H., 234

  Olds, Rev. Dr., 229

  Old Washington Penitentiary. See Washington Arsenal

  150th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 22

  151 st New York Volunteer Infantry, 255

  140th Indiana Volunteers, 87

  146th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, 289

  161st New York Infantry, 236

  Ord, Edward O.C., 97

  Ord, Mary, 97

  “Order of Retaliation,” 42

  O’Sullivan, Timothy, 263

  Our American Cousin (play), 117–18

  Owens, James, 194

  Ownsbey, Betty, 82, 217

  Padgett, William, 33

  Page, Nathan, 170

  Paine, Lewis. See Powell, Lewis Thornton

  Paramount Pictures, 236

  pardons: Lincoln’s granting of, 99–100

  Parker, John F., 23, 103, 104, 116

  Parker, William, 33

  Parker House, 61, 62

  Parr, David Preston, 83

  patents: Lincoln’s, 309(n40)

  Payne, Lewis. See Powell, Lewis Thornton Pearce, Thomas, 33

  Peddicord, J.M., 264

  Pegram, William, 258

  Pelouze, Louis H., 269

  Pendel, T.F., 23

  Pennsylvania House, 166, 167

  Peruvian (ship), 231

  Petersen, William, 123

  Petersen and Brothers, xii

  “petroleumania,” 61

  Peyton, Randolph, 189

  Peyton, Sarah Jane and Lucy, 189–90

  Philadelphia: mourning for Lincoln, 281–82

  Philadelphia Age (newspaper), 296(nl3)

  Philadelphia Daily Inquirer (newspaper), 87, 216

  Phoenix, John, 102, 310(n44)

  Phoenixiana (Phoenix), 102, 310(n44)

  phonography, xi, 128, 129, 215

  photographs: of Booth, xiii, 153–54, 195—96, 263–64, 317(n41); of Lincoln’s body, 283; of Lincoln’s deathbed, 124

  Pimlico racetrack, 243

  Pinkerton, Allan, 18–19, 20, 21

  Pinkerton Detective Agency, 18

  Pitman, Benn, xii, 215–16, 325(n22)

  Pitman, Isaac, 215

  police. See Washington Metropolitan Police Force

  Poore, Ben: Perley, xii

  Port Conway, 186–87, 197

  Porter, David Dixon, 97

  Porter, Horace, 112, 216, 325(n27)

  Port Royal, 191, 193, 197

  Port Tobacco, 163

  Potomac River: Booth’s crossing of, 164–65, 183, 184, 319(n30); Thomas Harbin’s crossing of, 194

  Poughkeepsie: mourning of Lincoln, 284–85

  Powell, Lewis Thornton, 91; activities on April 14 (1865), 112; arrest of, 175–77, 178, 209; attempted assassination of Seward, 126, 130; burial in Washington Arsenal, 257; Campbell Hospital abduction scheme, 85, 88; defense case of, 225; defense counsel, 219, 221; execution of, 229–30; imprisoned on the Montauk, 206; military career of, 82; newspaper descriptions of, 217–18; recruitment to Booth’s capture plot, 83; sentencing of, 227; John Surratt and, 83; Mary Surratt and, 175–76, 177–78

  “press copies,” 216, 325(n24)

  Prevost, C.M., 289

  Price, Sterling, 47

  Prisoner of Shark Island, The (film), 236

  prisoner-of-war camps: conditions in Confederate camps, 42–43; Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid, 4, 44–45; Martin-Kane raid, 72; Wistar raid, 4, 43

  prisoners of war: Black, 41–42; Grant’s ban on exchanging, 72–73; Lincoln’s “Order of Retaliation,” 42

  Pumphrey, James W., 109

  Purdom, James, 170

  Queen, Joseph, 74

  Queen, William, 65, 73, 74

  Quesenberry, Elizabeth, 165, 184, 185, 305(n28)

  racism: Booth and, 7; Samuel Mudd and, 236, 238

  Rains, Gabriel, 89

  Randall, Voltaire, 171

  Rappahannock ferry, 187–88, 189, 197–98

  Rath, Christian, 229

  Rathbone, Henry, 104–5, 120–21, 162

  Raymond, Henry J., 40

  Rebel Scout, The (Conrad), 55

  Record Group 94, xi-xxii

  Republican Party: slavery and, 6

  Rewriting History (TV documentary), 238

  Richard III (Shakespeare), 35

  Rich Hill, 156, 159

  Richmond: Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid, 4, 44–46; Ninth Vermont Infantry in, 90; Stoneman raid, 43; Wistar raid, 4, 43

  Richmond Examiner (newspaper), 44

  Richmond Militia, 36

  Richmond Theatre, 36

  Richter, Ernest Hartman, 167, 169

  Richter, Johann, 167

  Rietveld, Ronald, 283, 333(n58)

  Riggs, George Washington, 24

  Ripley, Edward Hastings, 90

  River Queen (steamship), 97

  Roanoke Evening News (newspaper), 264

  Robertson, John, 151

  Robinson, George, 126

  Roby, Franklin, 151, 157, 247

  Rochester Daily Union and Advertiser (newspaper), 286

  Rollins, Bettie, 187, 197

  Rollins, William, 187–88, 197, 201, 318(n20), 322(n23)

  Rosch, Charles W., 175

  Roscoe, Theodore, 98

  Rucker, Daniel H., 269

  Ruggles, Daniel, 188

  Ruggles, Mortimer, 188–89, 190, 192, 193, 197–98

  runaway slaves: Jack Scroggins, 151, 157, 317(n30); murder of Edward Gorsuch, 32–34; slave-capturing pat
rols, 66–68

  Rutherford, George V., 268–69, 331(n4)

  Safford, Henry S., 12, 123

  St. Georges Island, 49, 50

  St. Helen, John, 246–50

  St. Lawrence Hall, 61, 62, 71

  St. Mary’s Church (Charles County, MD), 74–75, 77

  St. Peter’s Church (Charles County, MD), 74, 145

  St. Timothy’s Hall, 30, 31

  Ste. Marie, Henri Beaumont de, 231

  “Sam” letter, 170–71, 173, 226

  Sample, William, 122

  Samuel A. Mudd Society, 242

  Sanders, George N., 71, 223

  Sanders, Thomas Bradford, 121

  Saugus (ship), 209

  Schneider, Joseph, 196

  Schofield, G.W., 263

  Scott, Winfield, 19, 24

  Scroggins, Jack, 151, 157, 317(n30)

  Searcher, Victor, 274

  Seddon, James B., 56, 58, 72

  Seddon, John A., 52

  70th New York Infantry, 150–51

  Seward, Augustus, 126

  Seward, Fanny, 126

  Seward, Frederick, 19, 20, 126

  Seward, William H.: Lafayette Baker and, 195; Baltimore Plot and, 19–20; Booth’s assassination plot, 13, 88, 112, 125–26, 130; laws of succession and, 313(n34)

  Shakespeare, William, 106

  Sheldon, Joseph, 23

  Shelton, Vaughan, 325(n24)

  Sheridan, Philip, 60, 97

  Sherman, William T., 60, 94, 96, 308(nl0)

  Sherwood, Jean Anderson, 62

  shorthand. See phonography

  Silsbee, Case and Company, 196

  Simms, Henry, 67, 304(n30)

  Simms, William, 67

  Simonds, Joseph, 61, 63

  Simpson, Bishop Matthew, 292

  sinapism, 124, 313(n22)

  Sixteenth New York Cavalry: Booth’s death, 203–4, 265–66; capture of Herold, 202–3; Wilson Kenzie’s story, 250–51, 252–54; pursuit of Booth and Herold, 193, 195, 196–200, 201–2; transport of Booth’s body to Washington, 205–6

  Sixth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, 253

  slave-capturing patrols, 66–68

  slavery: Christiana Riot and, 33–34; Harpers Ferry raid, 36; Lincoln’s assassination and, 6, 7. See also runaway slaves

  Slusser, H. Robert, 277

  Smith, A.C., 23

  Smith, Mrs. Clark, 272

  Smith, George W., 65–66

  Smith, H.W., 174

  Smith, John L., 88, 307(n20)

  Smith, Kirby, 41–42, 94, 308(nlO)

  Smith, Richard M., 92

  Smoot, Richard, 83

  Snyder, William H., 90

  Soldier’s Home: Booth’s capture plot and, 26, 63; Confederate capture plots, 25–26, 56, 57; history of, 23–24; Lincoln’s bodyguards and, 22, 23; as Lincoln’s summer residence, 23, 24; Lincoln’s vulnerability at, 24

  Soles, Jacob J., 122

  Soper’s Hill, 137

  Spangler, Edman: arrest of, 178, 209; imprisoned on the Montauk, 206; Lincoln’s assassination and, 113–14; Mudd family and, 242, 328(nn47, 48); newspaper descriptions of, 217; pardon of, 242; prosecution case against, 226; sentencing of, 227; transport to Fort Jefferson prison, 76

  Speed, James, 95, 211, 212–13

  Speed, Joshua, 39

  Springfield: funeral procession and burial ceremonies for Lincoln, 288–92

  Stanton, Edwin, 140, 172; actions on the night of Lincoln’s assassination, 13, 125, 126–28, 129–30, 313(n33); autopsy of Booth’s body and, 262, 263; Lafayette Baker and, 195; burial of Booth’s body and, 256, 257; clemency appeal for Mary Surratt and, 227; in conspiracy theories, 2; dressing of Lincoln’s body, 270; federal pursuit of Booth and, 152, 194; imprisonment of Booth conspirators and, 234; imprisonment of Jefferson Davis and, 225; Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid and, 46; Lincoln assassination trial and, 211, 212, 216, 222; Lincoln’s bodyguards and, 22, 23; at Lincoln’s death, 13, 14, 133, 134, 269; Lincoln’s funeral train and, 278, 283, 284; Lincoln’s last day, 95, 96, 102, 103, 104; photographs of Booth’s body and, 263–64; Soldier’s Home and, 24; Jacob Thompson and, 96, 100–101, 309(n37); transport of Booth’s body to Washington, 206; Wistar raid and, 43

  Stanton, Ellen, 125

  Star Hotel, 192, 197, 199

  Stevens, George E., 317(n29)

  Stevens, Thaddeus, 281

  Stewart, Kensey Johns, 52–54, 302(n48)

  Still Waters Run Deep (play), 85

  Stone, Charles P., 19, 131–32

  Stone, Frederick, 219, 221

  Stone, Robert King, 125, 133, 269, 270, 313(n25), 331(nl)

  Stoneman, George, 43

  Stoneman raid, 43

  Stringham, Silas, 300(n9)

  Strong, Mrs. Charles E., 282

  Stuart, James Ewell Brown (“Jeb”), 36, 55

  Stuart, John T., 290

  Stuart, Julia Calvert, 32l(nl2)

  Stuart, Richard, 185–86, 187, 321(nl2)

  Stuart, S. Tuberville, 321(nl2)

  Stuart, Samuel C., 281

  succession, 13, 127–28, 296(n4), 313(n34)

  Sumner, Charles, 102, 133

  Sumner, Isabel, 62, 63

  Surratt, Anna, 80, 174, 178, 229

  Surratt, Elizabeth Susanna, 138

  Surratt, Isaac, 80, 138

  Surratt, John Harrison, Jr., 159; arrest of, 178, 324(nl); Judah Benjamin and, 88; Campbell Hospital abduction scheme, 85, 86, 87; Confederate underground and, 80–81, 138; death of, 244; discovery and capture of, 231–32; first meeting with Booth and Mudd, 77, 78, 233; Thomas Harbin and, 78; David Herold and, 82; hiding of carbines at Surratt Tavern, 137, 139; later life of, 233; Edwin Lee and, 177; Lincoln assassination trial and, 226; meeting of conspirators in Washington, 83–84; movements after Lincoln’s murder, 209, 231, 324(nl); police search for, 173–74; Lewis Powell and, 82, 83; public lectures by, 232–33; purchase of boat from Richard Smoot, 83; recruitment to Booth’s capture plot, 65, 80, 81; trials of, 232, 233; Roderick Watson and, 89; Louis Wiechmann and, 77, 78, 80, 83, 174

  Surratt, John Harrison, Sr., 80

  Surratt, Mary Elizabeth, 80, 138–39; appeals for clemency, 227, 228–29; arrest of, 174–75, 177, 209; Booth’s assassination plot and, 109, 110, 139, 140–42, 143; Booth’s field glass and, 110, 141–42; burial in Washington Arsenal, 257; defense attorneys, 219, 221; execution of, 229–30; David Herold and, 178; newspaper descriptions of, 218; police search for John Surratt and, 173–74; Lewis Powell and, 175–76, 177–78; sentencing of, 227; trial of, 226, 326(nl); Louis Wiechmann and, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 174; writ of habeas corpus refused, 229

  Surratt Courier (newsletter), xiii

  Surratt Society, xi, xiii, 191, 242

  Surratt Tavern, 80, 81, 82, 86, 140, 141; Booth and Herold arrive at, 142–43; carbines concealed in, 137, 139

  Swan, Edward, 49, 50, 54

  Swann, Oswell, 156, 158

  Swann, Thomas, 98

  Taft, Charles S., 121, 122, 269, 270, 313(n25)

  Taltavul’s saloon, 122

  Tanner, James, 128–29, 130

  Taylor, Joseph (uncle), 25

  Taylor, Joseph Walker (nephew), 24–25

  Taylor, Richard, 41

  Taylor, Sarah Knox, 25

  Taylor, Walker, 298(n34)

  Taylor, Zachary, 25, 286

  T.B (town in Maryland), 139, 144, 315(nl3)

  telegraph lines, 129

  Texas Republican (newspaper), 16

  Third Virginia Cavalry, 55

  Third Virginia Infantry, 188

  Thirteenth New York Cavalry, 133, 146, 194

  Thomas, D.C., 269

  Thomas, Electus, 155

  Thomas A. Scott (ship), 236, 237

  Thompson, Jacob, 46, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 95–96, 100–101, 223

  Thompson, John C., 74, 75, 76, 154

  Thornton, James, 189

  Through Five Administrations (Crook), 102

  Tidwell, William A., 3

  Tilghman, Benjamin, 317(n29)
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  time bombs, 89–90

  Todd, David, 22, 42, 43

  Todd, George B., 101

  Todd, John B., 272

  Todd, Lyman Beecher, 272

  Tompkins, Charles, 216

  Torpedo Bureau, 5, 89, 90

  Townsend, Edward D., 279, 280, 283

  Townsend, George Alfred, 79

  Townsend, Soloman, 170

  Trap, the, 192, 198–99

  treason statute, 232

  Tredegar Ironworks, 43

  Trotter, Peter, 79

  Tucker, Beverly, 223

  Tudor Hall, 30, 35

  Turner, Thomas R., 295(n3)

  24th Michigan Volunteer Infantry, 289

  26th Pennsylvania Infantry, 317(n29)

  Twilley, Benjamin F., 99

  Ulke, Henry and Julius, 123–24

  Union Light Guard, 22, 123, 303(n60)

  U.S. Supreme Court, 213–14, 215, 223

  United States Colored Troops, 236, 274, 279, 301(nl3)

  United States Navy: integration of, 300–301(n9)

  United States Secret Service, 195

  Unsolved Mysteries (television show), 246, 250

  Urbana, 287

  Urquhart, Charles, 204

  Usher, John P., 95

  Van Alen, James H., 93, 308(n4)

  Vatican, 231, 232

  Verdi, Tulleo S., 126

  Veteran Reserve Corps, 269, 273, 275, 289

  “vicarious liability,” 210, 226

  Vincent, Thomas McCurdy, 268–69, 331(n4)

  Volck, Adalbert, 21

  W.L. Wall and Company, 49

  Wagner, Henry, 258

  Walker, N.S., 48, 50

  Wall, W.E., 54

  Wallace, Lew, 216

  Walter, Fr., 229

  War Department, 194

  Warne, Kate, 18

  Washburne, Elihu B., 20, 21

  Washington, George, 15, 28

  Washington, Richard, 67, 304(n30)

  Washington Arsenal, 88; burial of the bodies of Booth and co-conspirators, 256—57; trial room, 214–15

  Washington Daily Morning Chronicle (newspaper), 90

  Washington D.C.: Booth’s escape from, 127, 132, 135–36, 313(n33), 315(n3); funeral arrangements and ceremonies for Lincoln, 271–75; Herold’s escape from, 136; meeting of Booth conspirators in, 83–84

  Washington Evening Star (newspaper), 76, 111, 113, 235, 320(n39)

  Washington Intelligencer (newspaper), 216

  Washington Metropolitan Police Force, 23, 116, 314(n50)

  Watson, Roderick D., 88–89

  Weaver, John H., 123, 257, 258

  Webb, Edwin B., 14

  Webb, William, 23

  Webster, Edwin H., 98–99

  Weekly Anglo-African Newspaper, 317(n29)

  Weitzel, Godfrey, 97

  Welles, Gideon, 313(n33); autopsy of Booth’s body and, 262; Lincoln assassination trial and, 212; at Lincoln’s death, 13–14; at Lincoln’s last cabinet meeting, 95, 96; on the night of Lincoln’s assassination, 125–27, 128

 

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