Fortune's Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
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Cook, George, 208
Cook, Hannah, 208–9
Cooper, James Fenimore, 57–58, 247
Copperheads and Beall’s execution, 220
and Booth’s politics, 260
criticisms of Lincoln, 246
in Montreal, Canada, 186
and Pomeroy, 151
reaction to assassination, 282
and Spangler, 207–8
and Stump, 134
“Then and Now” (song), 191
and Wharton’s death, 165
Corbett, Boston, 307–14, 324
Corbyn, Wardle, 163
Corday, Charlotte, 248
The Corsican Brothers, 103, 154, 160, 166
Cottage Farm, 288
Cox, Samuel, 278–79, 283, 293
Cox, Samuel, Jr., 279
Coyle, John, 138, 161–62, 260, 281
Crane, William H., 131, 132
Crawford, Alexander M., 263
Crittenden Compromise, 100
Cromwell, Oliver, 245
Crowninshield, William, 316
Crutchfield, George, 65, 94
Culverwell, Charles (Charles Wyndham), 141–42
Curiosity rover, 339
Curtis, Edward, 169–70
Cuyler, Jacob C., 105–6, 250
Cuyler, Theodore, 370n63
Dahlgren raid, 233
Daily Mail, 93, 95
Daily Missouri Democrat, 120
Daily Sun, 89, 91
Davenport, E. L., 40, 44, 142, 166, 238–39
Davenport, Ira, 230
Davenport, William, 230
Davey, Thomas W., 169
David Copperfield (Dickens), 56
Davis, Garrett, 333
Davis, Henry Winter, 35–36, 71
Davis, Jefferson and Booth family dynamics, 137
and Booth’s acting career, 92
and Confederates in Canada, 187, 251–52
and the Dahlgren raid, 233
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 180, 206
and onset of the Civil War, 110
and spy networks, 200–201
and wartime Baltimore, 134
Davis, J. Lucius, 68
Davis, W. P., 245
Deamude, Charles, 337
Dean, Julia, 50
DeBar, Ben, 119, 152, 156, 168
DeBar, Clementina (sister-in-law), 27, 63, 119
DeBar’s Theatre, 118–19, 127, 166
Debonay, John L., 266–67
Decatur, Stephen, 100
Deep South, 93
Deery, John, 149, 152, 251
DeGroat, G. P., 155
Delannoy, Adelaide, 22–24, 32
Del Mar, Alexander, 197
Demond, Frederick A., 273
De Soto, the Hero of the Mississippi, 51–52
Deveny, John, 187, 189
DeVere, George, 156
Devlin, Catherine, 87
Devlin, Mary. See Booth, Mary “Molly” Devlin (sister-in-law)
Dickens, Charles, 56
Dietz, Frederick, 311, 312
Dinkle, Lewis, 76
Dion, Joseph, 188
Dix, John Adams, 220, 324
“Doctors’ Line,” 190
Doherty, Edward P., 306–10, 312, 314, 316
Dolman, John, 42
Don Caesar de Bazan, 103
Donoho, Thomas, 260
Dos Passos, John, 9
Doster, William E., 262
Doty, Albert D., 106
Douglas, Stephen A., 95–96
draft riots, 2
Drake, George, 273
Dramatic Oil Company, 171
Drew, Frank, 6
Drew, Louisa Lane, 135–36, 137
DuBarry, Helen A. Bratt, 415n100
Dudley, Thomas U., 331
Eagle Hotel, 120
Eckert, Thomas T., 254–55, 316
Eden Hall School, 327
education of Booth, 17–19, 25–27, 29–31, 158
Elliott, Wyatt M., 65, 70, 82, 261
Ellsler, John, 98, 157, 158–59, 162, 168
Emancipation Proclamation, 1, 140, 165–66, 189–91, 245
Emerson, Benjamin, 207
Emerson, Edwin A., 39, 155, 206–7, 257
Emerson, Henry, 207
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 249
“empty vessel” syndrome, 150
The End of an Era (Wise), 337
English Gypsies, 26
Episcopalianism, 32, 76–77
erysipelas, 182–83
escape route from Washington (chronological), 271 escape from Ford’s Theatre, 265–69, 416n111
Navy Yard Bridge crossing, 270–73
Uniontown to Samuel Mudd’s, 273–78
Zekiah Swamp to Rich Hill, 278–84
Rich Hill to Huckleberry, 284–86
Potomac crossing, 286–88
Gambo Creek to Cleydael, 288–90
Cleydael to Port Conway, 290–97
Port Royal to Garrett farm, 298–99
evangelicals, 53
Evans, Kathryn, 144, 161, 269
Evening Express, 103
Evening Journal, 121
Ewell, Richard, 260
executions, 219–21
Eytinge, Rose, 135
Ezekiel, Herbert T., 48, 66
Farrell, Robert E., 254–55
Farren, Mary Ann, 42, 124
Fawcett, Owen, 7, 122, 123, 195
Federal Hill, Baltimore, 108, 110
Fellows, William, 67, 80
Ferguson, Fred, 96, 147–48
Ferguson, James P., 145, 267
Ferguson, William J. and Booth’s character, 152–53
and Booth’s charisma, 150
and Booth’s humor, 156
and Booth’s Lincoln abduction plot, 214
and Booth’s mental state, 7
and Booth’s politics, 6
and Lincoln’s assassination, 267
Ferrandini, Cipriano, 248–49
Field, Annie E., 150
Field, R. M., 133
1st Maryland Volunteer Infantry, CSA, 177
Fisher, Kate, 52
Fitch, T. R., 256
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 9
Flood, William H., 266
Flynn, Thomas, 16
Foard, Norval, 328–30, 332
folklore of Booth, 1, 334–36
Forbes, Charles, 263–64, 415n100
Forbes, Hugh, 178–79
Ford, Annie, 327
Ford, Harry and Booth’s character, 153
and Booth’s personality, 251
and Booth’s politics, 255–56, 257, 259
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 214
and recovery of Booth’s remains, 327–28
Ford, James R. (Dick), 217–18, 259–60
Ford, John T. and Booth’s acting career, 45–46, 53, 121–22, 127, 138, 140–41, 159, 161
and Booth’s assassination plans, 413n87
on Booth’s charisma, 150
on Booth’s family background, 13
and Booth’s personality, 251
and Booth’s politics, 175
and Booth survival stories, 334
brother of, 153
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 179, 206, 215
and the Marshall Theatre, 46, 53, 84, 88
and Mary Devlin’s death, 135
and onset of the Civil War, 108, 115
reaction to assassination, 282
and recovery of Booth’s remains, 328
Ford’s Theatre and Booth’s assassination plans, 241
and Booth survival stories, 334
and Ferguson’s tavern, 145
and folklore of Booth, 1
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 210, 213, 237, 243
Lincoln’s attendance at, 140, 172–73, 210, 213, 243, 258–59
Forney, D. C., 144–45, 151, 153
Forrest, Edwin, 136, 142, 160, 194, 214, 216
Fort Anderson, North Carolina, 239
Fort Baker, Washington, D.C., 273
Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 252
Fort Henry, Tennessee, 124
Fort Pickens, Florida, 178
Fort Sumter, South Carolina, 105–6, 124
Fort Wagoner, Washington, D.C., 273
Fowler, Lottie, 230
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 333
Franklin, Stephen D., 284
Frazor, Edward, 232
Fredericks, William S., 41, 43
Free Soil Party, 217
free thinkers, 33
Freiberger, Edward, 335
French, Benjamin B., 226–27
The French Spy, 57–58
Frothingham, Richard, 170
fugitive outlaw figures, 334–35
Fugitive Slave Act, 27
Fulton, James, A., 34–35
Gaitley, John T., 193
Gambo Creek, 288
The Gamester, 42–43
Gardiner, George, 202
Gardner, Polk, 273
Garrett, Annie, 302
Garrett, Cora, 301
Garrett, Fannie, 300, 314–15
Garrett, Hettie, 301
Garrett, Jack, 299–307, 310, 312–13, 323–24
Garrett, Kate, 314–15
Garrett, Lilly, 301
Garrett, Richard H., 298–303, 305–7, 315
Garrett, Robert, 301, 315
Garrett, Will, 299–302, 306, 309, 310, 323–24
Garrison, William Lloyd, 151
Gayety Theatre, 103–5, 106
George, David E., 335
George III, 246
Giesboro Point, 320
Gifford, James J., 33
Gilbert, Anne Hartley, 7, 14
Gleason, Billy, 119–20
Gobright, Lawrence A., 3
Goffe, William, 247
Good Hope Hill, Washington, D.C., 273
Gordon, John, 251–52
Gorsuch, Dickinson, 26–27
Gorsuch, Edward, 26–27
Gorsuch, Thomas, 26
Gough, Major, 247
Gourlay, Jeannie, 251, 263, 268
Grand Union Rally, 99
Grant, Ulysses S. and Booth’s assassination plans, 259
and burial of Booth’s body, 325
and “last ditch” term, 304
and prisoner exchanges, 178
pursuit of Lee’s army, 255
and spiritualism, 229
Gray, Henry V., 44
Green, Thomas, 236
Greenleaf Point, 321
Green Mount Cemetery, 329–33, 336
Grover, Leonard, 137–38, 140–41, 157
Grover’s Theatre, 152, 258
guerilla warfare, 219
Guild, Benjamin, 160–61
Gunpowder Meetinghouse, 26
Gurney, Jeremiah, 198
Hackett, James Henry, 154
Hagan, George B., 34
Hale, Elizabeth, 217–18
Hale, John P., 217, 220, 228, 398n69, 415n100
Hale, Lucy and Beall’s execution, 220–21
and Booth’s assassination plans, 264, 415n100
and Booth’s capture, 314
Booth’s courtship of, 217–18, 217–19, 221, 228, 242, 253, 397–98n69, 415n100
and Lincoln’s second inauguration, 225
Hall, Ann, 15, 24, 133
Hall, James, 108
Hall, James O., 336
Hall, Joseph, 15, 17
Hall, Thomas A., 122, 327
Hall, Thomas W., 330
Hallowell, George, 319
Hamilton, Theodore, 21, 37
Hamlet (Shakespeare) and Booth’s acting career, 59, 90, 92, 120, 121, 160
and Edwin Booth’s acting career, 194–95
Hamlin, Charles, 267
Hanna, Hannah, 116
Hanna, Robert, 19, 120, 134
Hanscom, S. P., 264
Harbin, Thomas and Booth’s alcohol use, 251
and Booth’s character, 152
and Booth’s education, 18
and Booth’s escape from Washington, 280, 288–90, 294
and Booth’s finances, 231
evasion of arrest, 324
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 193, 200–201, 205–6, 208, 215–16, 233, 238
Harford Historical Society, 111
Harford Rifles, 111–12
Harlan, James, 224
Harlan, Mary, 218
Harper’s Ferry raid, 4, 67–69, 71
Harper’s Magazine, 248
Harris, Clara, 256, 265, 269
Harrison, Wirt, 71
Harvey, Richard, 326
Harward, Charles, 35
Hawk, Harry, 207, 265, 267
Hawkes, Arthur, 77
Hawkins, Rachel, 215
Hawks, Wells J., 80
Hay, John, 108, 140–41, 217, 223, 229, 338–39
health of Booth, 48, 139, 168
The Heir-at-Law, 63
Hemingway, Ernest, 9
hemophobia of Booth, 114–15
Henry, Alexander, 99
Henry, Joseph, 229
Herndon House, 261
Herold, Adam, 221–22
Herold, David E. and Booth’s assassination plans, 256–57, 260–62, 424n40
and Booth’s escape from Washington, 268, 273–78, 278–79, 290–92, 294–96, 298–99
on Booth’s injury, 416n109
burial place, 324
captured, 308, 310, 313, 315–17
escape with Booth, 283–84, 284–85, 286–90
at the Garrett farm, 303–6
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 221–23, 231, 235–36, 238, 241–43, 401n23
trial and execution, 323, 324
Herold, Mary, 221–22
Herostratus, 250
Hess, C. D., 258
Hewitt, John Hill, 22, 23
Hicks, Thomas H., 108, 111–12
Hill, Barton, 129
Hill, Harry, 106, 170, 194
Hogan, Henry, 186
Holato Mico (Billy Bowlegs), 30
Holliday Street Theatre and Booth’s acting career, 46, 121, 123–24
and Booth’s funeral, 331
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 176
and onset of the Civil War, 108–9
and recovery of Booth’s remains, 326–27
Holloway, Lucinda, 314–15, 315–16
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 217
Holt, Joseph, 316
homes of Booth, 12, 20, 29, 33–34
Hooper, Stephen, 36
Horner, Eaton G., 236–37
horsemanship of Booth, 18–19, 22
Horton, Anne, 147
Hot Corn Girl, 83
House Judiciary Committee, 325
Howard, Joseph, Jr., 2–3
Howard Athenaeum, 22–23
Howe, Julia Ward, 135
Howell, Augustus, 242
Howell, William A., 44, 108–9, 124
Hudnall, Henry, 70–71
Hughes, John J., 286–87
Hughes, Victorine, 287
Hugo, Victor, 42
Hunter, Robert W., 220–21, 291–92
Huntsville (steam ship), 99
Hyde, Susan, 20
Iles, George, 188
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 338
Ingraham, Prentiss, 30
Irving, Henrietta, 106–7
Irving, Maria, 107
Ixion; or, The Man at the Wheel, 326
Jack Cade, 216
Jackson, Andrew, 16, 100, 244, 334
Jackson, Thomas J. “Stonewall,” 78, 80
James, Fleming, 331
James, Louis, 158
Jarboe, John, 147
Jay Cooke & Company, Bankers, 231
Jefferson, Charles B., 158
Jefferson, Joseph, 83, 118
Jefferson, Thomas, 244
Jenkins, Romeo Jaffier, 160
Jerome, Frank, 174
Jett, Willie arrested, 323
and Booth’s capture, 306, 315
and Booth’s escape f
rom Washington, 295–97, 298–99
and Booth survival stories, 334
Jewish community, 48
John P. Hale and the Politics of Abolition (Sewell), 398n69
Johnson, Andrew and attempts to recover Booth’s remains, 325–26
and Booth’s assassination plans, 258, 260, 262, 281
Booth’s opinion of, 302
and conspiracy theories, 325
and Hale, 398n69
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 235
and Lincoln’s second inauguration, 225–26
Johnson, Bradley T., 178
Johnson, Richard M., 114–15
Johnston, Alex, 91
Johnston, Joseph, 254
John Wilkes Booth: Fact and Fiction of Lincoln’s Assassination (Wilson), 3
Jones, Avonia, 50–51
Jones, Charles H., 269
Jones, Jane, 280
Jones, J. R., 282
Jones, Thomas A. arrested, 323–24
and Booth’s escape from Washington, 277, 279–83, 284–86, 288, 293
and the Lincoln abduction plot, 212, 216, 235
Judaism, 48
Judd, Norman B., 232
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 5, 43, 81, 100, 193–98, 247
Kane, George P., 109–10, 151, 164, 185, 205
Kaplan, Joseph H. H., 336
Katty O’Sheal, 94
Keach, Edward F., 130, 155, 163
Kean, Edmund, 157
Keeler, William F., 337
Keene, Laura, 163, 267
Kernan, Frank, 196
Kerney, Marion, 21
Kerney, Martin J., 20
Keys, Susan, 76–77
kidnapping plot, 5
Kimball, Kate, 130
Kimmel, Stanley, 9, 10
Kincheloe, Mr., 254
King Lear (Shakespeare), 59, 160
Kirkwood House, 258, 260
Knapp, Samuel Chester. See Chester, Sam (Samuel Chester Knapp)
Know Nothing Party, 35–36
Krone, Charles, 118–19, 120, 128, 158, 168
Kunkel, George and Booth’s acting career, 46, 50, 55–56, 61
firing of Booth, 82
and Powhatan Hotel, 63
and theater business, 46, 50–51, 55, 61, 64, 70, 84, 85
Kunkel and Company, 46–47
Ladies and Gentlemen (Cabell), 57
Ladies Literary Institute, 147
The Lady of Lyons, 89, 120, 132
Lafarge House, 196
Lamb, Eli, 26
Lamb, John Emerson, 25, 26
Lambert, Lucy, 217
Lamon, Ward H., 225–26, 227
Landes, Henry, 318
Langdon, Harry, 49–52, 61, 86, 109, 174, 175, 248
Lawson, James, 184
Lee, Fitzhugh, 30
Lee, J. H., 172
Lee, Robert E. and the John Brown affair, 67
nephew of, 30
and prisoner exchanges, 178
surrender, 255–56, 259, 282, 291
and wartime setbacks, 254