Blood on the Moon

by Edward , Jr. Steers

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  INDEX

  Abbott, Ezra W., 313(n25)

  Abraham Lincoln Assassination Bibliography (Houmes), xi

  Aiken, Frederick, 219, 221

  Aladdin! Or His Wonderful Lamp (play), 270

  Albany: mourning of Lincoln, 206, 284, 285

  Albany Times (newspaper), 284

  Alford, Terry, 30

  Allen, Hannah, 255–56

  Allen, Joshua, 16, 297(n4)

  Allen, William C., 250, 255–56

  Allen’s Fresh, 163–64

  amnesty proclamations: Johnson’s, 308(n 10); Lincoln’s, 309(25)

  Anderson, Finley, 269

  Anderson, Robert B., 95

  Anderson, S.S., 41

  Andersonville prison camp, 4

  Antonelli, Cardinal Giacomo, 232

  Apostate, The (play), 88, 311(nl2)

  Appomattox, 94

  Archer, James A., 72

  Arehart, Louise Mudd, 242

  Army Medical Museum, 262

  Arnold, George William, 171, 243

  Arnold, Isaac N., 18

  Arnold, Samuel Bland: arrest of, 170–71, 209; Campbell Hospital abduction scheme, 85, 88; death of, 244; defense attorneys, 218, 219, 221; defense case of, 225–26; later life of, 243; meeting of conspirators in Washington, 84; memoir by, 243–44; newspaper descriptions of, 217; origin of friendship with Booth, 31; pardon of, 242; recruitment to Booth’s capture plot, 58, 62–63, 64, 80; “Sam” letter, 170–71, 173, 226; sentencing of, 227; testimony on Booth’s introduction to Mudd, xii-xiii, 172–73, 239; transport to Fort Jefferson prison, 76

  Ashmun, George, 104

  assassination/conspiracy trial: appeals for Mary Surratt, 227, 228–29; challenge to legal jurisdiction of, 221–22; conspiracy laws, 209–11 ; controversy over closed hearings, 222; daily reading of previous day’s testimony, 215; defense attorneys, 218–19, 221; disadvantages for defendants, 222–23; execution of condemned defendants, 227–30; “Exhibit No. 1” xiii, 153–54; length of, 216;
military commissioners assigned to, 216–17; as a military trial, 211–14, 222–23; newspaper descriptions of conspirators, 217–18; numbers of objections by attorneys in, 211–12; phonography and, 215; “press copies” of testimony, 216; prosecuting attorneys, 219–20; prosecution of Jefferson Davis and co-conspirators, 223–25; published testimony versions, xii-xiii; reading of charges to defendants, 220–21; recording of testimony in, 215–16; sentencing of defendants, 227; trial room in Old Washington Arsenal, 214–15; yellow fever plot and, 47–48, 51

  assassination plots: Baltimore Plot, 17–21; Harney’s bomb plot, 5, 58, 303(n66); against Jefferson Davis, 45. See also Booth, John Wilkes, assassination of Lincoln; capture plots; Lincoln, Abraham, assassination of

  Atlanta, 60

  Atwood, Andrew. See Atzerodt, George Andrew

  Atzerodt, George Andrew: activities on April 14 (1865), 110, 112, 131; arrest of, 169–70, 209, 307(nl9); burial in Washington Arsenal, 257; Campbell Hospital abduction scheme, 83, 85, 88; “confession” of, 172; defense counsel, 219, 221; execution of, 229–30; John Fletcher’s identification of, 131–32; flight from Washington, 167–69; imprisoned on the Montauk, 206; meeting of conspirators in Washington, 84; movements on April 14 (1865), 166—67; newspaper descriptions of, 217; recruitment to Booth’s capture plot, 81; sentencing of, 227; testimony given to James McPhail, 88, 172, 307(n20); testimony on Booth’s intent to murder Lincoln, 319(nl); testimony on Booth’s introduction to Mudd, 172, 239; testimony on Thomas Harney’s bomb plot, 5, 88, 89; testimony on Mary Surratt, 110, 141

  Atzerodt, Henry, 167

  Atzerodt, John, 81, 170, 307(nl9)

  Augur, Christopher Columbus, 128 132—33, 136, 194, 269, 271

  Badeau, Adam, 309(22)

  Baden, Joseph, 185, 194

  Bainbridge, Absalom, 188–89, 190, 192, 193, 197–98

  Baker, C., 269

  Baker, Lafayette C., 193, 194, 195, 196, 206, 219, 254, 257

  Baker, Luther B., 193, 195, 196–200, 201–3, 205–6

  Baltimore: mourning for Lincoln, 279–80

  Baltimore American (newspaper), 21, 81, 172, 243

  Baltimore Clipper (newspaper), 162, 171, 175–77, 269

  Baltimore News American (newspaper), 259

  Baltimore Plot, 17–21

  Baltimore Sun (newspaper), 21