Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

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by James L. Swanson

Fredericksburg, battle of, 322

  “Freedom” (Crawford), 1

  Freeman, Ned, 305–6, 348

  Gamble, General, 113–14

  Gardiner, George, 128, 181

  Gardiner, Thomas L., 181

  Gardner, Alexander, 1–2, 43, 46, 353, 360

  execution photographs by, 365, 374

  Garrett, Cora Lee, 292

  Garrett, Fannie, 287

  Garrett, John M., 280, 287–90, 292–96, 303, 304–11, 316, 318–21, 322, 329, 336

  Garrett, Lillian Florence, 292

  Garrett, Richard Baynham, Jr., 287, 290, 292, 295–96, 346

  Garrett, Richard H., 278–79, 280, 287, 306, 316, 317–18, 359

  Garrett, William, 287, 289–94, 310–11, 316, 320

  Gavacan, Simon, 208

  Gemmill, Zachariah W., 220–21, 358

  Gettysburg, battle of, 322

  Gouldman, Izora, 301

  Gouldman, Jesse, 312

  Gouldman, Julia, 312

  Gourlay, Jennie, 84

  Gourlay, Thomas, 84

  Government Printing Office, 357

  Grant, Julia, 18

  Grant, Ulysses S., 4, 5, 12–14, 28, 32, 34, 38, 50, 111–12, 115–16, 118, 180, 366, 379

  Booth’s encounter with, 18

  Ewell’s letter to, 174

  Greenhow, Rose, 256

  Greenough, Horatio, 1

  Greenawalt, John, 114

  Griffin, Mary Ann, 358

  Grover’s Theatre, 10–11, 27, 96

  Gurley, Phineas T., 110, 137, 139, 213

  Hackett, James Henry, 269

  Haco, Dion, 383–84

  Hale, John Parker, 26

  Hale, Lucy, 26

  Halleck, Henry, 116, 117, 118, 123

  Hancock, Winfield Scott, 113, 175, 214, 257, 283, 286–87, 362–64

  Hansell, Emerick, 60, 69, 101

  Harbin, Thomas, 129, 240, 258–59

  Hardie, James A., 113

  Harper’s Weekly, 200, 284, 353

  Harris, Clara, 32–33, 34, 35, 39, 41, 42, 46, 49, 72, 77, 85, 91, 106, 108, 115, 158–59, 372

  Harrison, William Henry, 90

  Hartranft, John F., 362–63

  Hawk, Harry, 41–42, 48, 159, 321

  Hazelton, William Cross, 297–98

  Hemphill, T. J., 351

  Henry, Michael, 89

  Herold, David, 6, 24, 28, 29–30, 68, 103, 118, 149, 179, 181, 193, 195, 198, 205, 222, 257–58, 270–71, 286, 289, 298, 299, 302, 305, 307–8, 345, 347, 348, 349, 351, 356–59, 374, 379, 381, 387

  in Atzerodt’s confession, 221

  background of, 25

  Booth’s relationship with, 187–88, 207–8

  at Cox’s farm, 163–66

  in crossing to Port Royal, 275–77

  in encounter with Confederate soldiers, 272–75

  execution of, 364–66

  Fletcher’s pursuit of, 80–82, 183

  in flight from Washington, 78–81, 82, 86–88, 95–96

  Gardner’s photographs of, 353

  at Garrett farm, 295–96, 308–11, 317, 323, 324–28, 335–36

  horses killed by, 187

  in Indiantown stopover, 247–53

  Lucas’s horses confiscated by, 262–67

  in Mudd’s cover story, 211–13

  at Mudd’s farm, 122–24, 130–32, 152–57

  at Peyton farm, 277–78

  in pine thicket encampment, 165, 166–67, 171–72, 184–85, 187–89, 204, 207–8, 224–26, 230–32

  in Potomac crossing attempts, 232–33, 245–48, 255–56

  Rollins’s identification of, 300

  Seward assassination attempt and, 51–52, 57, 59, 60

  at Stuart farm, 259–62

  surrender of, 324–28

  tattoo of, 279

  trial and conviction of, 362–63

  Hess, C. Dwight, 27

  Hill, Britten A., 112

  History of the United States Secret Service (Baker), 374

  Holloway, Lucinda K. B., 287, 293, 338, 341–42, 344

  Holt, General, 286–87

  Holt, J., 71

  Hough, B. B., 117

  Hughes, John J., 247–49

  Hylton, Dunbar, 385

  Italy, 376

  Jackson, Andrew, 21

  Jackson, Susan, 358

  Jett, William S., 272–80, 301, 303

  Booth betrayed by, 311–14, 341

  Jim (former slave), 304

  John S. Ide, 285, 348, 350

  Johnson, Andrew, 19, 28–29, 101, 112, 132, 141, 146, 183, 208, 339, 362–63, 364, 368, 378–79

  coconspirators pardoned by, 366–67

  failed assassination attempt on, 78–79

  Johnston, Joseph, 30, 294

  Jones, Robert R., 89

  Jones, Thomas A., 166–70, 188, 207, 246, 252, 255, 258, 355, 356, 388

  arrest and release of, 239–41

  book by, 373

  Booth’s escape and, 224–31, 232

  Booth’s first meeting with, 172–73

  Confederate service of, 167–68

  death of, 245, 274

  escape plan of, 173–74, 178–80

  Jones, Thomas A. (continued) Peterson House visited by, 244–45

  pine thicket visits of, 171–72, 176–78, 184–87, 204–5, 225–26

  in Port Tobacco visit, 208–10

  Townsend’s discovery of, 242–44, 373–74

  J. Wilkes Booth (Jones), 373

  Keckley, Elizabeth, 6

  Keene, Laura, 12, 15, 75, 106

  death scene contrived by, 83–85, 90–92

  Keim, W. R., 114–15

  Kelly, John F., 120

  Kenly, J. R., 123

  Kennedy, John, 114

  Kent, William, 75

  Ke y, Henry, 49

  Kimball, John H., 358

  King, Albert Freeman Africanus, 90–91, 107, 108

  Kirkwood House, 18–19, 183, 196, 220–21, 294

  Kit (Jones’s horse), 240–41

  Koerth, Sergeant, 99

  Lawrence, Richard, 21

  Leale, Charles A., 15–16, 32, 33, 48, 83, 102, 106, 107–8, 110, 118–19, 138, 244, 372

  Lincoln examined by, 73–78

  Lincoln moved to Petersen House by, 90–94

  Leaman, James E., 180

  Leaman, Somerset, 180

  Lee, Edwin Gray, 27

  Lee, John, 89–90

  Lee, Robert E., 4, 9, 13, 26, 27, 30, 50, 116, 118, 202, 280, 294

  “Lilley irons,” 353

  Lincoln, Abraham, vii, 4, 26, 39–41, 50, 101, 140–41, 156, 323, 348, 350, 353, 371, 375, 379, 382

  autopsy of, 154

  deathbed of, 143–44, 144

  death of, 138–39

  doctors’ examination of, 109–11, 118–19

  funeral procession of, 203, 213–14, 342

  Keene’s improvised scene and, 84–85

  kidnap schemes and, 23–24, 125–28, 240, 258

  last hours of, 83–86, 91–93, 102, 106–11, 118–19, 135–37

  Leale’s examination of, 75–78

  love of Shakespeare of, 269–70

  as martyred hero, 205, 231

  Mary Lincoln’s relationship with, 31–32

  in move to Petersen House, 90–94

  physical strength of, 43–44

  recurring water dream of, 13–14

  Richmond visit by, 9

  second inauguration of, 1–2, 64–66

  shot by Booth, 42–46

  Stanton’s relationship with, 96–97

  torchlight speech of, 5–6, 15–16

  Lincoln, Mary, 5, 10, 14, 39–41, 44, 46, 97, 139–40, 154, 213, 245, 350

  in arrival at Ford’s, 33–34

  assassination reactions of, 71–72, 74, 79, 106–7, 108, 110, 121

  in carriage accident, 50

  Lincoln’s relationship with, 31–32

  personality of, 30–31

  Lincoln, Robert Todd, 13, 14, 30, 110, 139, 213, 379

/>   Lincoln, Tad, 5, 12, 14, 96, 139, 154, 213

  Lincoln, William Wallace “Willie,” 30, 139, 154, 379

  Lloyd, John, 19, 22–23, 83, 104–6, 129, 160, 209, 282

  Lloyd, Joshua, 208, 211

  Louisiana, 6

  Lovett, Alexander, 208–9, 211–12, 233, 239

  Mudd questioned by, 211–12, 234–35

  reward money awarded to, 358

  Lucas, Charles, 265–67, 270, 276

  Lucas, William, 262–66, 309

  Macbeth (Shakespeare), 251–52, 268–69

  McDevitt, James A., 120

  McDowell, General, 199

  McPhail, James, 87, 117, 174, 197, 220

  Maddox, James L., 16

  Madlock, John F., 198

  Martin, Patrick Charles, 126–27

  Maryland, 87–88

  Matthews, John, 17–18, 29, 148–49, 206–7, 219

  Booth’s Intelligencer letter destroyed by, 148–49

  Meigs, Montgomery, 101–2, 109, 112, 184

  Merrick, Henry, 16–17

  Metz, Hezekiah, 180, 219

  Mexico, 294

  Mills, Clark, 353

  Millward, John, 217

  Montauk, USS, 31, 349–50, 352, 353, 355

  Montgomery, J. B., 117

  Morgan, Lieutenant-Colonel, 146–47

  Morgan, R. C., 190–91

  Morgan, Richard, 358

  Morris, W. W., 116–17, 122

  Mosby, John Singleton, 174–75, 214–15, 272–73

  Mosby’s Rangers, 59, 272–73

  Mudd, George, 155, 182, 185–86, 208–9

  Mudd, Henry Lowe, Jr., 155

  Mudd, Samuel A., 83, 124–25, 176, 204, 229, 231, 233, 253–54, 257, 260, 282, 297, 299, 300

  in Atzerodt’s confession, 221

  Booth sheltered by, 152–58, 160–62, 168

  Booth’s kidnap scheme and, 127–29, 161, 240

  Booth’s leg treated by, 129–31

  cover story of, 181–82, 185–86, 208–9, 211–13

  death of, 378

  Johnson’s pardon of, 366–67

  Lovett’s questioning of, 211–12, 234–35

  popular image of, 378

  Wells’s interrogation of, 235–39

  Mudd, Sarah Frances, 127, 152, 153, 155, 157, 162, 209, 234

  Munroe, Seaton, 91

  National Hotel, 119, 127, 197

  National Intelligencer, 17, 29, 135, 205

  Navy Yard Brigade, 66–68, 81–82, 164, 229

  Naylor, T., 78

  Nelaton probe, 110, 118

  Newport, Colonel, 184

  New York Herald, 171, 186, 198, 205

  New York Times, 205

  New York Tribune, 16–17, 205

  Norris, Basil, 50, 52, 68–69

  O’Beirne, James, 89, 281–82, 315, 358

  O’Laughlen, Michael, 24, 27–28, 80, 231, 339, 349, 353, 356, 363, 366, 378, 379

  arrest of, 197, 220

  Olcott, H. S., 146–47, 190

  Oldroyd, Osborn H., 244–45, 374

  Olin, Abram B., 112

  Orr, Colonel, 384–85

  Oswald, Lee Harvey, 383

  Our American Cousin (Taylor), 12–13, 15, 17, 374

  Booth’s knowledge of, 35–36

  fatal shot and, 41–42, 159 “Our Brutus” (sheet music), 385

  Page, Nathan, 180, 219

  papal states, 375–76

  Parker, Commander, 254

  Peanut, John, see Burroughs, John Pendleton, J. H., 304 “Perrine’s New Topographical War Map of the Southern States,” 294

  Petersen, William, 93, 145

  Petersen House, 374, 379

  Jones’s visit to, 244–45

  Lincoln moved to, 90–94

  as tourist attraction, 244–45

  Peyton, Lucy, 278

  Peyton, Randolph, 277–78

  Peyton, Sarah Jane, 278–79

  Philadelphia Inquirer, 205, 217

  Phillips, Henry B., 5

  Pierpont, F. H., 147

  Pinkerton, Allan, 23, 215

  Pope’s Creek, 179

  Port Tobacco, 208–10, 242

  Powell, Lewis, 6, 24, 28, 29–30, 68, 70, 86, 118, 132, 194, 195–96, 205, 221, 231, 256, 323, 336, 349, 356, 358, 377, 381

  background of, 25

  capture of, 190–93, 231

  disinterment of, 379–80

  execution of, 364–66

  Gardner’s photographs of, 353

  Seward attacked by, 51–61

  trial and conviction of, 362–63 “Præsidicide, The” (Hylton), 385

  Prisoner of Shark Island, The (film), 378

  Purdum, James W., 219–20, 358

  Queen, William, 127–28

  Quesenberry, Elizabeth, 230, 252, 256–59

  Rathbone, Henry, 32–33, 35, 41, 42–43, 58, 63, 73–75, 77, 91, 115, 160, 264, 277

  fate of, 372

  grapples with Booth, 46–47

  wound of, 72, 108–9

  Rawlins, General, 18

  Ray, James Earl, 383

  Reconstruction, 6, 387

  Richards, Almarin C., 135, 146

  Richmond, fall of, 2, 4, 266

  Richter, Hartman, 181, 219–20

  River Queen, 269

  Robey, Franklin, 165, 171

  Robinson, George, 51, 55, 57–60, 61, 68–71, 101, 372

  Rollins, Betsy, 301, 302

  Rollins, William, 267, 310

  Baker’s questioning of, 298–302

  Booth and Herold encountered by, 270–71, 274–76

  as cavalry guide, 302–3, 305

  Rosch, Charles H., 358

  Rucker, General, 112

  Ruggles, Mortimer B., 272–80, 301–4

  Safford, Henry, 93–94, 106 “Sam” letter, 119, 133–35, 174, 183, 197

  Sampson, Thomas, 358

  Saugus, USS, 353

  Secret Service, Confederate, 24, 27, 116, 125

  Severs, Wesley, 200

  Seward, Anna, 60

  Seward, Augustus “Gus,” 59–60, 69, 101

  Powell identified by, 194

  Seward, Frances (wife), 51, 60, 377

  Seward, Frances “Fanny,” Adeline, 49, 50–52, 54–55, 57–59, 60, 68, 69, 70, 79, 85, 98, 101, 377

  Seward, Frederick, 49, 54–56, 57, 60, 69–70, 101, 111, 115, 121, 136, 377

  Seward, William H., 28–29, 97, 98, 101, 111, 113, 115, 121, 132, 137, 141, 142, 148, 191, 193, 205, 323, 336, 357, 362

  in carriage accident, 49–50

  Powell’s attempted assassination of, 51–61

  wounds suffered by, 68–69, 377, 377 Shakespeare, William, 251, 268, 269–70, 327

  Sherman, William Tecumseh, 14, 30

  Sixteenth New York Cavalry, U.S., 253, 283, 285, 289, 298–303, 328, 331, 340, 345, 348, 357–58, 359, 361

  at Garrett’s farm, 314–28, 334–42

  Jett arrested by, 311–13

  Rollins as guide for, 302–3

  Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, U.S., 87

  Slater, Sarah, 167, 256

  Slough, J. P., 123–24, 253

  Smith, James, 99–101

  Smith, John L., 220

  Smith, H.W., 189, 358

  Smith, William M., 1

  Smithsonian Institution, 380

  Soldiers’ Home, 97

  Soper’s Hill, 86, 187

  Spangler, Edman “Ned,” 20, 36, 63, 231, 349, 353, 356, 368, 378, 379

  arrest of, 197–98

  Johnson’s pardon of, 366

  Speed, James, 154

  Sprague, Lyman, 89

  Stanton, Edwin M., 13, 50, 70, 96–102, 100, 102, 107, 109, 121, 140, 142, 170, 194, 198, 220, 257, 281, 322, 330–31, 337, 339, 363, 368, 381

  in aftermath of Booth’s death, 349–56

  fate of, 378–79

  Lincoln’s final hours and, 110–12, 137–38

  Lincoln’s relationship with, 96–97

  manhunt directed by, 112–14, 115, 146–47, 174–75, 183, 202–3, 214
–15

  Pinkerton’s aid declined by, 215

  rewards proclaimed by, 221–23, 233–34, 285 “Sam” letter and, 133, 135, 174

  Stanton, Ellen, 97, 98

  Star Saloon, 35, 37, 155

  Stevens, General, 257

  Stevenson, General, 113

  Stewart, Joseph B., 62–64

  Still Waters Run Deep, 25

  Stockton, Mr., 218

  Stone, Frederick, 242

  Stone, Robert King, 110

  Stuart, Richard, 259–62, 263, 287, 308

  Booth’s written rebuke of, 267–70, 276

  Sumner, Isabel, 151–52

  Sumter, Fort, 9

  Supreme Court, U.S., 379

  Surratt, Anna, 120–21, 129, 189, 193, 367

  Surratt, John, Sr., 103–4

  Surratt, John Harrison, Jr., 19, 23, 24, 25, 80, 104, 118, 119, 143, 148, 189–90, 193, 194, 195, 205, 286, 300, 379

  arrest and escape of, 375–76

  Booth’s recruitment of, 128–29

  death of, 377

  as fugitive, 365–66, 375

  reward offered for capture of, 221–22

  in secret mission, 27

  trial of, 376–77

  Surratt, Mary E., 19, 22–23, 80, 83, 104, 119–20, 128, 129, 155, 226, 231, 300, 349, 356, 357, 374

  arrest of, 190–93, 196–97

  in Atzerodt’s confession, 221

  disinterment of, 367

  execution of, 364–66 interrogation of, 194–96

  Powell’s arrest and, 189–90

  public sympathy for, 379

  trial and conviction of, 362–63

  Swann, Mary, 165, 241

  Swann, Oswell, 163, 165–66, 240

  Sweitzer, W. B., 253, 284

  Taft, Charles Sabin, 76, 90–91, 107, 108, 110, 138

  Taltavul, Peter, 35, 37, 90

  Tanner, James, 113, 138

  Taylor, Colonel, 253

  Taylor, Tom, 12

  Taylor, Zachary, 90 “Terry’s Panorama of the War!” (Tyng), 384

  Thirteenth New York Cavalry, U.S., 132, 137, 153, 155–57, 161, 182, 239

  Thirtieth Virginia Infantry, Confederate, 307

  Thomas, Sam, 227

  Thompson, John C., 127–28

  Thornton, Champe, 276

  Thornton, James, 276–77

  Torbert, General, 257

  Townsend, George Alfred, 86, 150, 192, 208, 209, 346, 347–48, 350, 351

  on Booth’s interment, 354–55

  Garrett farmhouse as characterized by, 345–46

  Jones discovered by, 242–44, 373

  Townsend, Solomon, 220

  Trappe (tavern), 303

  Treasury Department, U.S., 15, 373

 

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