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Blood on the Moon

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by Edward , Jr. Steers


  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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