Manhunt (64 page)

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

reward money disbursement and, 357–59

Trotter, Peter, 181

Turner, Ella, 149–50, 383, 384

Turner, J. W., 201

Turner, Mary Ann, 64

Twain, Mark, 242

Twenty-second Army Corps, U.S., 253

Tyng, H. L., 384

Ulke, Julius, 143

Urquhart, Charles, 340, 344

U.S. Army Medical Museum, 300, 380, 382

Usher, John P., 142

U.S. Military Railroad, 113

Vanodi, Sig., 384

Verdi, T. S., 50, 52, 53, 55, 68–69, 70

Virginia, 48, 116, 147

Walker, James, 114

Walnut Theatre, 351

Walton, John R., 224

War Department, U.S., 71, 96, 97, 113, 123, 138, 147, 176, 189, 190, 203, 213, 221, 232, 233–34, 248, 283–84, 350, 352, 361, 362, 368, 379, 381

in appeal to black population, 285–87, 286

reward proclamations of, 221–23, 233–34, 285, 349

Ware, John, 227

Warren, Henry, 43

Washington, Frank, 125

Washington, George, 1, 16, 90, 163, 382

Washington
Daily Morning Chronicle
, 135, 141–42, 163, 177, 198, 205

Washington Evening Star
, 6, 14–15, 149, 177, 205, 363–65, 368

Watkins, Captain, 137

Weaver, John, 367–68

Weichmann, Lewis, 19, 22, 119–21, 129, 193

Welles, Gideon, 13, 99–101, 102–3, 107, 109, 117–18, 136–37, 142, 154, 213, 253–54, 363

Welles, H. H., 156, 189–90, 193, 233–34

Mary Surratt interrogated by, 194–96

Mudd interrogated by, 235–39

reward money awarded to, 358

Welles, John, 99

Welles, Mary Jane, 99, 139–40, 154

Wermerskirch, William, 190–91, 358

Whitman, Walt, 64–66, 125

Willard Hotel, 213

Willauer, Captain, 257

Williams, William, 208, 209–10, 243–44

Wilmer, Parson, 212, 238

Winship, W. W., 253

Withers, William, 33, 48

Wood, Reverend,
see
Powell, Lewis Woodland, Henry, 179, 184, 228–29

Woodward, Dr., 352

World's Columbian Exposition, 373

Zeilin, Colonel, 117–18

I
THANK THE PIONEERS
, G
EORGE
A
LFRED
T
OWNSEND
(1841 TO 1914), Osborn H. Oldroyd (1842 to 1930), and James O. Hall, who, in his nineties, remains an inspiration. All other scholars of the Lincoln assassination must stand on their shoulders. Townsend, Oldroyd, and Hall followed Booth's path, asked the questions, collected the documents, and pursued the unknown. The rest of us walk in their footsteps, and those tracks span several generations leading in an unbroken line back to the night when Abraham Lincoln was shot. I owe special thanks to Mr. Hall for a memorable day at his home, when he shared some of the knowledge that he has devoted a lifetime to acquiring.

With fond memories, I thank the late Michael Maione, National Park Service historian at Ford's Theatre, who, as far as I know, never appeared anywhere out of uniform, for memorable conversations and good counsel. Mike was the model of a public historian, and those who saw him in action at Ford's, pacing in front of the stage, delivering his famous lecture on the assassination in a bellowing voice, saw him at his best. Once, I cautioned Mike that his enthusiasm was frightening the schoolchildren who flocked in droves to Ford's every summer. “Yes,” he said, beaming, “and they will remember me!” They certainly did. And Michael, so shall we. It was “altogether fitting and proper,” to borrow Lincoln's phrase from his remarks honoring the dead at Gettysburg, that Mike's memorial service was held at the place he loved—Ford's Theatre.

I thank Library of Congress specialist Clark Evans for quiet days in the rare-book room at the Jefferson Building, when he brought out one delightful Lincoln treasure after another. I also thank John R. Sellers, Historical Specialist
at the Library of Congress manuscripts division, for assassination tips, helpful publishing advice, and making available some of the Lincoln treasures from his domain. At the National Archives, Michael Musick was an indispensable guide to the complicated records of the Lincoln assassination.

Two good friends in the Lincoln community, Edward Steers Jr., the premiere contemporary historian of the assassination, and Michael F. Bishop, executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, graciously read and improved the manuscript. Michael Burlingame, Lincoln scholar, editor, and author nonpareil, is unfailingly eager to share his research with colleagues, and he generously answered my questions. At the University of Chicago, David Bevington offered insights into Booth's use of Shakespeare.

Andrea E. Mays, an astute critic of historical nonfiction, read and commented on the manuscript from her unique perspective. She reviewed several incarnations of the book and saved me from making a number of embarrassing errors and omissions.

I also thank Lisa Bertagnoli, journalist, linguist, and student of Southern culture, for reading the manuscript, offering many valuable comments, and for her other contributions.