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by John C. Brennan

Excerpts from newspapers and other

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From the files of the

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513 Main St,Laurel, Md. 20810July 24, 1979

Mr. Mark E. Neely, Jr.Lincoln National Life FoundationFort Wayne, Indiana 46301

Dear Mr. Neely:

My friend and yours, Bert Sheldon, has sent me LouisLeonard Tucker* s EYEWITNESS TO LINCOLN'S LAST HOURS clipped from theApril 1979 Yankee Magazine .

When the newspaper accounts of "Gussie" Clark's April 16,I865, letter appeared in late 1977 > I wrote to the Massachusette His-torical Society, expressing grave doubts that Augustus Clark and WillianT. Clark could both have lived at the Petersen House in April I865 withoutsomeone having chronicled Augustus's existence — especially since they bothhad such breathtakingly similar experiences. "Gussie" actually was amuch more important fellow than Willie, inasmuch as (a) he climbed upinto the Presidential box and (b) helped carry Lincoln's limp formacross the street. And Gussie carefully refrained from saying whichroom on which story of the House he was renting and also shied away fromrelating anything other than the well-known stereotyped details.

Can you think of any reason that Gussie would have senta piece of blood-stained towel, identical to the one he mailed to his"Dear Uncle", to Governor John A. Andrews of Massachusetts — on May 5,I865? I canl He wanted to get into the act.

Now in December 1977 Bert Sheldon verified that there wasan Augustus A. Clark living and working in Washington in the 1860s and1870s. Here is the information he worked up from the D. C, City Direc-tories:

1863 Augustus Clark, Messenger, City Hall Basement.1864 " " Hospital Visitor, Mass. State Agency,

427 Penna Ave.1865 Augustus A. Clark, Q.M. Dept . Clerk, 369 13th West.1868 " 558 14th St., West.1870 Augustus Clark, Clerk, Internal Revenue

449 B St. between 13-14 Sts.1$71 tr ?T If Tf U ff

1874 " " Clerk, P.O., 225 F St., N.W.1876 " " " 2018 12th St.

I hardly need add before closing that Bert and I boththink that Gussie was a first-class prevaricator and that both of hisletters "smell."

All of this is simply for your files.

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Mr. Neely:

I wrote Mr. Tucker on Aug. 5

asking for confirmation (other thanin Gustavus Clark's own words)that Gus

1. lived at the Petersen House2. was helped up into the

President's Box by MissHarris

3. helped carry the Presidentto the Petersen House

4. remained in "the room" allnight , and

5. obtained a lock of thePresident's hair.

I also expressed the opinion thatGustavus Clark's "experiences" werenothing more than Walter Mittyfantasies.

No reply received as yet.

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JOHN C. BRENNAN Telephone 498-151$513 MAIN STREET

LAUREL. MARYLAND 20810 August 10 , 1979

Dear Sir or Madam:Consideration was given to publishing the appended Pictorial Primer

in a more eye-appealing fashion, but the cost estimates were astronomical.Two hundred cheapie first-edition copies have been processed in the formtransmitted, and if it ever eventuates that additional copies are neededthey can be run off quickly and easily, with errors corrected and newmaterial added.

Within just the past few days the baptismal entry, January 23, 1853,of John Wilkes and Joseph Adrian Booth has been checked out at St. Timo-thy's Episcopal Church in Catonsville, Md., and the astounding fact de-veloped that John's godfather, a distinguished scholar named Henry Onder-donk, "Late President of the Maryland Agricultural College /now the U ofNd//" , was the author of a schoolbook history of Maryland and anavailable copy from the Fifth Revised Enlarged Edition discloses that theauthor chose to pass over the Lincoln assassination completely, withoutmentioning it, the victim, or his godchild, the assassin.

Then, recently, Jack R. Brown of Dayton, Ohio, a necrology and gravestoneaddict who has been working the field for the past 55 years, has made itknown that Dr. John Frederick May, the doctor who removed the carbuncle fromBooth's neck and afterwards identified the body because of the scar, lies un-der a camera-ready stone in Washington' s Rock Creek Cemetery. Brother Brownalso reveals that Theatre owner John T. Ford's dust is covered by a somewhatpretentious monument in Baltimore's Loudon Park Cemetery, just waiting tobe filmed and published. Mike Kauffman's research has shown that MikeO'Laughlin's counsel, Walter Smith Cox, awaits judgment day in GeorgeKackley's Oak Hill Cemetery (later on, Judge Walter Smith Cox sentencedassassin Guiteau to death for fatally shooting President Garfield on July 2,1831).

A collateral relative of Confederate spy Thomas Nelson Conrad, thefellow who wrote two now-rare books detailing HIS plan to kidnap Lincoln,has made available some previously unseen cabinet portraits of the Conradcouple, Mrs. Conrad having been nee Ball and by her husband nicknamed MinieBall.

Dan Toomey of nearby Ferndale, Md., the author of a historical bookleton Relay, Md., has come into ownership of a carte de visite of a subjectwho appears to be John Wilkes Booth and which has ,? 5ooth' T written in pencilon the reverse side. This new-view of JWS, if it is indeed he, emanatedfrom a Michigan studio.

Srick Davis reports he has seen the original pardon issued to SamuelBland Arnold, with letters from Arnold to the sister who donated theitem, in the archives at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.

A telephone call just in from George Landon Kackley at Oak Hill Ceme-tery exults that George A. Harrington, Assistant Secretary of the Treasuryin charge of all the Washington arrangements for Lincoln's funeral, is therein Oak Hill without any above-ground indication of his oresence.

All the foregoing information is furnished gratis:*

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but -if-ye^-wi-ll-yeffiit.*3-r-£l]iS-4>£^^^ the en c-lo-sed-souvenir, I shall yieldup all monies over expenses to the Surratt Society — which has alreadyraised over half of the -£20,000 that a replacement kitchen alongside thedining room will cost. Be assured that this book-selling adventure isbeing watchfully, suspiciously, and apprehensively overseen bv Mrs. LaurieM. Verge, the money-hungry Presiaent of the Clinton, Md., group.

Cordially yours,

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PICTORIAL PRIMERhaving to do with the

ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLNand with the assassin,John Wilkes Booth

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— John C. Brennan --

(Area gravestone data of familiar names, and area road maps offamiliar places, are attached as appendices.)

Processed byMINUTEMAN PRESS

Laurel, Md.August. 1979

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Louise Mucid AREHART

James L. BARBOURCharles J . BAUERMargaret K. BEARDENEdwin W. BEITZELLRobert N. BERGANTINOForest J. BOWMAN

Dennis CAMPBELLJoan L. CHACONASJeannine CLARKE

Erick F. DAVISFrederick S. DeMARRDonald P. DOWLt. and Mrs. James DROSKINIS

John ELVIN IIIHerb C. EMBREYElaine ENTWISLE

The Reverend Ralph E. FALLDorothy and Howard L. FOX

David W. GADDYGail B. GLICKSMANHarold C. GOETTNERNancy and Ken GRIFFITHKellie and Richard J.S. GUTMANLetitia and Thomas A. GWYNN

James 0. HALLWilliam HANCHETTValerie and John M. HANDYConstance HEADOrva W. HEISSENBUTTELKate HENDERSONBen Graf HENNEKERuth Fox HUME

The Reverend Alfred ISACSSON

Constance YOUNG

Wathen and George KACKLEYMichael W. KAUFFMANThe Reverend Robert L. KEESLERDiane and John KOKKONEN

Paul T. LANHAMDr. John K. LATTIMERJoseph M. LAWLERFranklyn LENTHALLShyrl LITTLETONArthur F. LOUX

P.E. ("Pep") MARTINRaymond A. MARTINJohn D. MAYHEWJohn W. McGRAIN, JR.Maude B. MOTLEYDr. Richard D. MUDD

Lorraine C. NORTON

Nate ORLOWEKBetty J. OWNSBEY

Leonard E. PADGETTSenator Charles H. PERCY

Colonel Julian A. RAYMOND(now deceased)

David REUWERFloyd E. RISVOLDTheodore ROSCOEMrs. Frank J. RUMMEL

Richard ("Dick") RUSSELL

Bert SHELDONRichard SLOAN

Fred TILPDaniel C. TOOMEY

Laurie and Tony VERGE

John M. WALTON, JRHarold 0. WANGEleanor WHITEHEADJames C. WILFONG, JR.Ames W. WILLIAMS

constitute a listing of some of the people who, in one way or anotherhave made the task of compiling this booklet an altogether pleasant one

James 0. Hall (standing) introduceshimself as the Surratt Society's tourguiae at the beginning of one of the manyall-day trips to which he has generouslygiven of his time. He is a widely rec-ognized authority on the Lincoln assas-inaticn — having studied, lectured, andwritten about it for more than a quarterof a century -- and except for his open-ended research this brochure would hard-ly have been possible.

President Abraham Lincoln,just entering upon his secondterm of office, was the victimof Booth's cold-blooded, mur-derous deed. (From an' engrav-ing by Sartain that appearedin Osborn H. Oldrcyd's 1901book on the assassination.Other vintage photographs takenby Oldroyd in that year willbe included on the pages thatfollow.

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A post card of uncertaindate shows how Ford's Theatrelooked in bygone days.

The apparel PresidentLincoln was wearing when sr.otis :n permanent display in theFcra Theatre museum.

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Wa are taking a long-shotchance in publishing this re-cently unesrthed photo that wassimply labeled ''Booth." It maynot be he, but it surely lookslike him. (Courtesy of ArthurF. Loux.)

Booth is said to have beenthe handsomest actor of his time,possessed of a charm and person-ality that captivated both menand women. (Photograph made from

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carte de visite of Harold C.Goettner.

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An 1862 letter from one Boothbrotner to another indicatesthat their father, while not ac-tually insane, had "a crack thatway * * * which I fear runs moreor less thro' the male portionof our family, myself included."(Excerpt published with thanksto Jeannine Clarke and with per-mission of The Walter Hampden-Edwin Booth Theatre Collectionand Library.

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The second word in thetitle of this quality paper-back (copies still availableat this writing) very likelyprovides the best explanationfor Booth* s assassination of

President Lincoln.

The log house in which Booth wasborn near Bel Air, Maryland, on May 10,1838. He was not quite 27 when heaccomplished his "One Mad Act. w (Per-mission to use photo obtained from DoverPublications, Inc.)

Booth's father, a famoustragedian, bought the log housein the early 1820s and movedit across several fields to thevicinity of this sweet-waterspring. (Inexplicable thingscontinue to happen at the oldBooth place; notice the imagehere above the middle of thedalmatian's back.)

Then-and-now views of theBel Air Academy, Booth's schoolfrom about age 8 to age 13

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When he was 14 Booth attended St.Timothy's Hall in Catonsville, Md.,where he met Samuel Bland Arnold. Noth-ing remains of the building shown (whichis published through the courtesy of theBaltimore County Historical Society).

the late 1840s, Junius BrutusBooth had begun construction of "TudorHall" on the site of the old log cabinand a stone's throw from the free-runningspring. "Tudor Hall" is now on the Nat-

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In an entirely unrelated in-cident, one of the ladies liv-ing at "Tudor Hall" on the dayPresident McKinley was assas-sinated, Sept. 6, 1901, felldown the main staircase andbroke her nose.

The Booth log house shown on thet preceding page, in a new location miles' away from its place of origin, continue:in use as the nucleus of a family home.This picture was taken while extensiverenovations were underway in 1977.

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Booth's initials, J.V.7

.B.,have been scratched onto one

of the diamond- shaped panesat "Tudor Hall" (which isa private home not open to thepublic)

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These surviving mementoes, a blue-bordered china platter and circa I83Sforks bearing Junius Erutus Booth'sinitials, were once in use in the Boothhousehold at Bel Air.

Because there is room forit here, a likeness of thetragedy-filled face of Mrs. Mary-Ann Booth, the mother of theassassin, is reproduced with thepermission of the Edwin BoothTheatre Collection and Library.The old soul died in 1885 at theage of 83.

In 1906 the famous Kirksilversmiths in Baltimore ham-mered a likeness of "Tudor Kail"into a piece of the silver ser-vice to be used aboard the coal-burning cruiser Maryland . Some200 other State historicalscenes were likewise embossedInto the silver service.

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A colorful W.P.A. mural in the PostOffice at Bel Air memoralizes EdwinBooth's theatrical debut on an improvisedstage in the court house there. JohnWilkes's famous actor brother Edwin hashis name enshrined in the Hall of Famein New York; if there were a Hall of111 Fame, John's name would head thelist of candidates nominated for inclu-sion.

As stated on the historicalmarker az the Bel Air CourtHouse, Edwin Booth made histheatrical debut in the prede-cessor structure. (On thesteps here are Dr. and Mrs.Richard D. Mudd , this Dr. Kuddbeing the grandson of the onewho rendered first-aid treatmentto the injured left leg of JohnWilkes Booth.

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En route to Ford's, theLincolns' carriage stopped at712 Jackson Place near theWhite House (center buildingin photo) to pick up one orboth of their theatre guests,Miss Harris and Major Rathbone.The parents of this engagedcouple, both widowed, had mar-ried each other, thus makingtheir children have a step-brother— step-sister relation-ship.

Had it not been for this TreasuryGuards' flag, in which Booth caught hisspur while leaping from Lincoln's boxto the stage, Booth would not have in-jured his leg and might have succeededin escaping to a foreign country.

At Ford's Theatre, in aprotective case that spot-lights its gruesomeness, is thetiny derringer that fired theshot whose reberveretions con-tinue to this very day.

About twelve feet abovethe stage in Ford's Theatre(restored in 1968} is the Presi-dential box. The framed en-graving of George Washingtonis the original that was knockedoff center and which shows achip resulting from contact withBooth' s boot.

Before he squeezed the trigger,Booth probably peered through the peep-hole in this door to assure himself thathe would be able to kill the Presidentwithout interference and by surprise.

A drawing by an unidentified artist

in a 1939 brochure titled "Wings" cap-

tured both the action and the horrorassociated with Booth's insane deed.

The nick made by Booth's spur

in the picture frame now restoredto its original position outsidethe Presidential box can be quick-

ly spotted by anyone entering.the orchestra (1st floor) section

of Ford' s Theatre.

Kiss Laura Keene, aversatile, experienced,and resourceful actress-manager was starring inthe play Lincoln waswatching when the fatalbullet was fired.

The documentation accompanying thiscuff from the costume Laura Keene waswearing when Lincoln was shot recitesthat: "They called for water in the boxand she rushed up with some water fromher dressing room off the stage ana heldhis head, and these drops or smears ofblood were from the wound in his head."(The $5 bill shows comparative size ofthe cuff. Photograph courtesy of theSmithsonian Institution.

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The 1304Lutz Housein which theLincoln-con-nected LauraKeerie livedas Mrs. JohnS. Lutz ismarked with a

historicalplaque memo-ralizing anearlier Lutz'connectionwith GeorgeWashington atValley Forge.The House ison WisconsinAve. a fewdoors north of

rcgM Street inGeorgetown, D.C.

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An old post card showshow the Petersen House, inwhich Lincoln died, lookedmany years ago. The Petersen£° U

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Ford's Theatre.

At the Petersen House, ina plastic case resting on areplica of the bed in whichLincoln died, is an originalblood-stained pillow.

An exhibit in the Ford TheatreMuseum shows weaponry ana para-phernalia belonging to or asso-ciatea with some nine peoplewho allegedly conspired withBooth to murder Lincoln. Atthe bottom of the case areDr. i-.udd's medical kit, Spanglertcoil of rope, and Paine' s pick-ax lying parallel with thepickax handle

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One wishing to retrace Booth's escaperoute from 'Washington should detour via604 H St., K.W. , a few blocks from Ford'sTheatre, to see Mrs. Surratt's boardinghouse (the view shown is dated 1922).Booth visited here frequently, accordingto testimony introduced at the trialof the alleged conspirators in Lincoln'smurder, even on the afternoon of theassassination. President Andrew Johnsonexpressed the opinion that this was theplace where the egg (of the assassinationplot) was hatched.

A present-day view of Mrs.Surratt's boarding house (thewhite building slightly right ofcenter) shows duplicate streetidentification markers on thelamp posts. The reason is thatin this area live many of Wash-ington's Chinese residents.

Mrs. Mary E. Surratt wasabout 42 in I865. Her execu-tioner stated she was "rathergood-looking, well-dressed, andof attractive figure."

Th* youngest of Mrs. Surratt's

three children was John Harrison

Surratt, Jr., who was 23 in 1B0>.

In April 1979 this long-lost,(and somewhat ungrammatical)historical marker that identi-fies the Surratt House at Clin-to*n, Md., was located and re-trieved in Illinois through thegood offices of Senator CharlesH. Percy of that State.

The Surratt House or Tavern, 13miles south of Washington, D.C., looksthe same now as it did when it was builtin 18 52.

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The wide-open front doorof the Surratt House at Clinton,Md., bids today's visitors thesame welcome it bade stagecoachtravelers in the 1850s and early1860s. One recent tourist wasoverheard saying the house asnow furnished gives the impres-sion Mrs. Surratt might have juststepped across the street tovisit a neighbor.

Mrs. Laurie M. Verge,later to be president of theSurratt Society (a nationwideorganization that in 1979 hasabout 400 members), poses inher docent's or guide's attireon the day the tavern wasformally reopened.

The three gentlemen in the centerare Surratt descendants. They cut theribbon that symbolically reopened thehouse and tavern on May 1, 1976.

Among the relics displayedin the museum room of the SurrattHouse is a nightshirt worn byDavid E. Herold, one of the al-leged conspirators, when he wasvisiting a relative at the near-by village of "T.B." early in1865.

After their midnight stop at theSurratt tavern on April 14, 1865, Eoothand Herold may have proceeded to Dr.Mudd's house via a tiny place called"Horsehead" because of an inn that borethe strange name. Circa 1920 photosof the inn and its mailbox are herereproduced courtesy of the Surratt Housearchives.

This 1901 picture taken by Oldroydof Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd's home isthe earliest one known to exist. WhetherBooth and Herold arrived here via Horse-head Tavern or St. Peter's Church isn'tof vital importance.

According to legend, Boothslept in the second floor frontbedroom of the Horsehead Tavernwhen reconncitering his escaperoute itinerary for his originalplot to kidnap President Lincoln.Well-laid plans had been made toabduct the President long be-fore Booth decided to murder him.

This is the Mudd House before therecently begun restoration got under way.

Booth hobbled up Dr. Mudd'sstaircase eight hours aftershooting President Lincoln tohave a splint placed on his leftankle in the front, second-storybedroom.

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straight fracture of the smallbone about two inches above theankle, an injury that Dr. Mudddid not regard as a "peculiarlypainful or dangerous wound."

After leaving Dr. Mudd's on a Satur-day afternoon, Booth and Herold stayedoff the main roads and avoided passingtoo close to the Bryantown or Montgomeryhotel or tavern, here shown in 1901 and1978 photographs.

Froceeding southward from Dr. Mudd'shouse, people tracing Eooth's escaperoute should certainly pause at St. Mary'sCatholic Church — in front of which Dr.Mudd was introduced to Booth in the fallof I864. The more primitive view ofthe church is dated 1901; the othershows the edifice as it now looks -- aftera disastrous I963 fire (Dr. Mudd's gravestone is the leftmost oblong one.)

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The two escapees knew that they wereamong friends when they arrived at "RichHill", Col. Cox' home at Bel Alton, Md.The upper picture is "Rich hill" beforeits restoration inl976,and the lowerview is of the house in its present form.

PORT TOBACCOIN THIS CENTER OF CONFEDERATE

ACTIVITY. AT THE BRAWNERHOTEL. DETECTIVE CAPTAIN

WILLIAM WILLIAMS UNSUCCESSFULLY

OFFERED THOMAS JONES,$100 000

REWARD FOR INFORMATION THAT

WOULD LEAD TO THE CAPTURE

_t0F JOHN WILKES BOOTH.

Standing beside the self-explanatory

historical marker is Mrs. Joan L. Ghaconas,

the present-day Vice President of the

Surratt Society and a highly competent

historian on the Assassination and the

John Wilkes Booth Escape Route. __

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Col. Cox' foster-brother, Thomas A.

Jones, in 1S93 wrote a book in which hesaid that in April 1865 he had hiddenBooth and Herold in a thicket at BelAlton not far from where the "Collis"house was subsequently built, and he il-lustrated the Collis house with a wood-cut. The quick eye of James 0. Hallpicked up the identical lines of a

present-day residence at Bel Alton withthose of the woodcut, and so we now knowabout where Booth and Herold were se-

questered.

Thomas A. Jones, who risked his life

to save the lives of Booth and Herold,

lived near the Potomac River at "Huckle-

berry" in the vicinity of "Rich Hill."

The ancient dwelling has now been pho-

togenically restored by the Jesuits who

own the property.

One of the four people

handed for complicity in the

Lincoln assassination was a

carriage painter known as

"Port Tobacco" Atzerodt. With

his brother he is said to have

had a workshop at Port Tobacco,

Md., behind the very appropriate-

ly named "Chimney House.

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Thomas A. Jones, a loyal

and incorruptible man, was

the Chief Signal Officer for

the Confederacy in the State of

Maryland.

Beneath these palisades overlook-ing the Potomac River is the spot whereJcnes furnished the fugitives a flat-bottom 12-foot-long boat and badethem goodbye as they headed out forVirginia in the inky darkness.

At long last the two outlaws succeededin reaching the Virginia side of the Po-tomac River, where they sought and ob-tained aid from Mrs. Elizabeth Ouesen-berry (Q-sen-berry) . Her home as seenby Oldroyd's kodak in 1902 appears above,and then, as captured by another cameraabout eight decades later, it is shownbelow. Except for the keen discernmentof brothers Pep and Ray Martin we wouldnever have known that the little cabinis now the left downstairs room of agreatly enlarged structure.

At_ "Cleydael," the summer home ofthe wealthy "and aristocratic Dr. RichardStuart, Booth was refused medical atten-tion and shelter. Testimony confirmingDr. Stuart's inhospitality probablysaved him from punishment similar to

that accorded Dr. Mudd.

Having crossed the RappahannockRiver at Port Conway, Virginia, in thecompany of three Confederate soldiers,the assassin and his accomplice brieflyvisited the still-standing heme of theMisses Peyton in Port Royal, Virginia.

Posing as an injured Confederatesoldier named Boyd, Booth was accordedtraditional area hospitality by a familynamed Garrett a few miles south of PortRoyal. The Garrett farmhouse, hereshown, finally fell apart in 1937 —a victim, some say, of souvenir hunters.No trace cf the house remains today.

This drawing by surveyor Robt. N.Bergantino of Butte, Mont., pinpointsthe location of the farmhouse on whosefront porch Booth expired in the earlymorning of April 26, I865. (The probablesite of the flaming tobacco shed in whichBooth was fatally wounded is also indi-cated. )

If there is still daylight when aconducted tour reaches the end of thetrail at the Garrett farm, a groupphoto showing the historical markeris taken "for the record."

Another Bergantino schematic fur-nishes a close-up rendition of theGarrett farmhouse with additional statis-tics.

An eccentric Union calvary-man named Boston Gorbett asser-ted that he shot Boothj but Boothmay have killed himself — inas-much as he had boasted he wouldnever be taken alive.

Spools from Booth's spine,removed at the autopsy held inWashington, form an exhibit atthe Armed Forces Medical Museumon the grounds of Walter ReedHospital. The downward courseof the fatal bullet is indicatedby a medical probe.

A black curl from Booth'sforehead that the attendingphysician cut off and gave toMiss Lucinda K.B. Kolloway, a

relative of the Garretts whowas with Booth at the end, re-mains in the possession of thepresent-day members of herfamily. (Photograph by James0. Hall.)

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Bootn's "diary," on permanentdisplay at Ford's Theatre, in1865 was an obsolete memorandumbooklet from which 3ooth mayhave occasionally torn pages foruse as note paper for over ayear before his death. I t is oflittle or no help in explaininghis motives or in identifyingthose who conspired with him.

The military commission thattried the alleged conspiratorsmet on the third floor of thisbuilding, now used as quartersfor military personnel at FortMcNair in Southwest Washington.Close by are the tennis courtswhere once stood a scaffold thatclaimed four victims on Friday,July 7, 1865.

Miss Maude E. M-. Motley of Bowlingureen, i-irgmia, owns a smallpiece of wood bearing a silverplate that identifies" it as asegment of "sooth's Crut-hApril 26th, I865."

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Tickets of admission were speciallyprintea to admit spectators to the hang-ing of the four convicted prisoners cn°July 7, I865.

This I865 drawing graphicallydepicts how Mrs. Surratt, and Paine,Kerold, and Atzerodt were executed'on the grounds of the present-dayFort Lesley J. McNair.

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CHAPTER XVI.

An early edition of one of the bestpresentations of Lincoln's life and deathportrayed 22-year-old Anna Surratt as beingher own A-2-year-cld mother. Modern-dayamateur sleuths are gradually bringing intofocus some of the closed-door confusionsthat have baffled diligent and competentprofessional researchers.

PRESS COMMENTS ON THE SUICIDE OF'DAVID E. GEORGE.

. "Enid "Wave : Enid, Oklahoma Territory, Janu-

ary 17th, 1903.— (Special.)—David E. George, a

wealthy resident of the Territory, toko committed

suicide here, announced himself on his deathbed to

be John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Li*-

leoln. He stated that he had successfully eluded the

-, officers after shooting Lincoln and since had re-

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mained incognito. His statement caused a sens*- i

L tion, and an investigation was made. Snrgeona exj

Over the years, the story has been

tcld and retold that Booth did not dieat the Garrett farm. The most talked-about ana written-about latter-dayJohn Wilkes Booth was and is a David E.

George of Enid, Oklahoma.

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George's body was carefullyembalmed after he committedsuicide in 1903 , and here aretwo views of the straight-legged mummy. The dead maneither never knew, or else for-got, that for an obvious reasonJohn Wilkes Booth's boyhoodname was "Billy Bowlegs. "(Theunclothed mummy is copied, withpermission, from a Dover pub-lication called "Hoaxes.")

^2™ K * Surratt's Rockville,Md., 1870 lecture revealed somedetails of the attempt to kid-nap President Lincoln- and SamuelBland Arnold's 1902 serializedmemoirs furnished additional in-formation. Eut both men, shownhere in their later years, be-came recluses and refused in-terviews -- thereby leaving manyquestions unanswered forever.

17APPENDIX

Cemeteries and Gravestones

Photographs and articles about graveyards and tombstones

are repugnant to the squeamish, but to history buffs and re-

searchers, necrologic records ofttimes fill in biographical

gaps and permit the ascertainment of dates not elsewhere obtain-

able.

The collection of pictures that follow all have some rele-

vancy to people and events named or depicted in the preceding

section of this booklet. Thus this second section of the book-

let is a kind of posthumous postscript to the first section.

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Mount Olivet Cemetery, Wash.,D.C.Immediately after her execu-

tion on July 7, 1865, Mrs. Sur-ratt was buried at the foot ofthe scaffold in the area of thetennis courts near the Officers'Club at Fort McNair. Ker bodywas turned over to her family inIS69, at which time she was re-buried at Mount Olivet.

In 1968 a new gravestone re-placed the old one — on whichthe faint and poignant "Mrs.Surratt" was still showing.

Elizabeth Susanna ("Anna")(1843 -1904) and Dr. Wm. P. Tonrywhom she married in I869 and whodied in 1905 are also buried here,as is Isaac Douglas (1841-1907).

The only gravemarker, otherthan Mrs. Surratt' s, is that of"William S. Tonry, 1870-1944."

Mount Olivet CemeteryJohn Minchin Lloyd, the

tavernkeeper at Surrattsvillewhose testimony was so damagingto Mrs. Surratt' s case, wasburied in IS92 a short distancefrom the unfortunate woman. (Thepaper bill gives a comparativeidea of the size of the grave-marker. )

Mrs. Surratt' s headstone looked likethis in I965, before the top part wasbroken off right below her name -- proba-bly by a lawn mower.

Mount Olivet CemeteryFather Jacob A. Walter (1827-

I894) who accompanied Mrs. Sur-ratt to the scaffold and whosteadfastly maintained she wasinnocent of the charges broughtagainst her lies under thissubstantial monument.

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Mount Olivet CemeteryThomas H. Harbin, once the postmaster

at Bryan town, Md. ,was an ardent secession-ist. His sister was Mrs. Thomas A. Jonesand thus he was the brother-in-law ofanother notable Confederate activist

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Congres sional r.Pm*r a ,

n. oEmerick T. Hansell, a StateDepartment messenger, for noKnown reason was severely

slashed by "The Assassin Payne"incident to Payne's attempt tokill Secretary of State Seward.Payne's ferocious assaults atSeward's home were timed tocoincide with Booth's more suc-cessful attempt on the life ofPresident Lincoln.

Mount Olivet CemeteryCapt. Henry Wirz , the Commandant

of Andersonville Prison, was handedat Old Capitol Prison (the site of thepresent Supreme Court Building) onNov. 1C, 1865. The small square mar-ker showing the misspelled name has nowdisappeared from Wirz' grave.

Congres sional Cemetery. Washington. D .C.Peter Taltavul ( 1825-l83l? raA

the Star Saloon next door to Ford'sTheatre. He testified that he servedBooth a drink about ten minutes beforethe fatal shot was fired.

(The weatherized lettering has beenpenciled over.

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Congressional Cemetery. Washington. D.C.Vhen President Andrew Johnson released

David Edgar Herold's body to the Heroldfamily in I869, it was brought from theOld Arsenal Prison (Ft. McNair) and re-buried at a private service. Davy isreputedly lying under one of the twodarker stones at the right, which markthe graves of two of his seven sisters,but his name is nowhere to be seen. Thelighter stones at the left memoralizeDavy's father (1803-1861) and his mother(1810-1883).

Congressional Cemetery. Washington. D.C .~~Col. William F.Wooa (1820-1903),

superintendent of Old Capitol Prisonwhere Mrs. Surratt was initially con-fined, believed her innocent of thecharges leveled against her.

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Congressional CemeteryHenry P. Cattell (I838-

1915), an embalmer in the em-ploy of Brown and Alexander,prepared Lincoln' s body forthe trip back to Springfield.

Arlington, Va.. National CemeteryCorp. James Tanner, whose legs had

been amputated in the field because ofcombat injuries and who was living nextdoor to the Petersen House, took downin shorthand (then called phonography)the testimony given before Stanton whileLincoln lay dying in the next room.

Congressional CemeteryCount Adam de Gurowski (1805- !

1366), a State Department trans-j

lator who scowled and growledbut never harmed anyone physi- -

cally, is said to have beenthe only man Lincoln fearedmight attack him.

Arlington, Va. , National CemeteryInconspicuous is the gravemarker of

Abraham Lincoln II, the President's grand-son, who died in 1890 at age 16 in London.Nicknamed "Jack," the young man was firstburied in Springfield, Illinois, beforebeing placed here near the body of hisfather, Robert Todd Lincoln, in 1930.(Thanks are extended to Mike Kauffman for .

calling attention to this minusculemarker.

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Arlington. Va. , National CemeteryCapt. Edward P. Doherty's epitaph

recites that he commanded the cavalrydetachment that "captured PresidentLincoln's assassin," without mentioningJohn Wilkes Booth's name.

Oak Hill Cemetery. GeorgetownAntonia Ford (I83 8-1871) was

a beauteous Confederate spy from"Fairfax, Va., who served aprison term in the Old Capitolbefore marrying Unionist MajorJoseph Willard of the hotelfamily.

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Oak Hill Cemetery, GeorgetownBettie Duval Webb, ss the

"young ana beautiful courier"Betty Luvall, assisted RebelRose O'Neal Greenhow in herespionage efforts on behalf ofthe Confederacy.

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Blunt , solid, and imposingis the massive monument cover-ing the dust of Edwin MonastersStanton (1814-1869), Lincoln'sSecretary of War.

Oak Hill Cemetery, GeorgetownJohn George Nicolay (1832-

1901) was Lincoln's private secretary and biographer.

Oak Hill Cemetery, GeorgetownSurgeon General Joseph K.

Barnes (1817-1883) was render-ing first aid at the home ofSecretary of State Seward whenhis presence was demanded atthe bedside of the dying President Lincoln. He witnessedthe autopsies of both Lincolnand Booth.

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Georgetown . D. C.Oak Hill CemeteHenry Ulke (1821-1910, a talented

artist and portrait painter, was a board-er at the Petersen House the night thefatally wounded President was broughtthere.

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The Carroll vault, in a remote sec-tion of Oak Hill, held the remains of"Little Willie" Lincoln from his death in1862 until they were placed aboard the rail-road car at the foot of his assassinatedfather on April 21, IB65. There are un-documented stories of visits Lincoln madeto the vault to look upon the face of hisbeloved child.

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waAlmarm uooiey Richards (1^23-1907)was Superintendent of Washington's Metro

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John Wilkes's rrave is at the rearof the massive obelisk erected by Edwin. '

The graves of John's granafather Richard,his parents, his two sisters, anabrother Joseph and Joseph's wife and babyEdwin, all have- sculptured markers. Ed-win is buried in Cambridge .and JuniusJr. in Manchester, Massachusetts.

John Wilkes's name (facinghis grave) tops the list ofBooth children. The names ofAsia (1835-88) and Rosalie(1823-89) should have been in-scribed before Joseph's name,his life span having coveredthe period 1840-1902. Edwindied in 1893.

MamGreen Mount Cemetery. Balto. Md

Samuel Bland Arnold, another school-mate of Eooth,and a fellow-prisoner cfO'Laughlin and Dr. Mudd in the Drv Tor-tugas, lies several spaces to the" leftoi a small marker readin? "Arnold." Hedied at age 72 in 1906, four years afternewspapers' publication of his memoirs.

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Cemetery. Ealto . Md .

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U. S. Senator Reverdv John-son (1796-1876), original coun-sel for Mrs. Surratt is buried,in front of the cruciform monu-ment.

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New Cathedral Cemetery,Baltimore, Maryland

The lot of the family ofJohn Harrison Surratt , Jr.,boasts one modest stone inthe form of a cross bearingthe single word "Surratt."He died in 1916.

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New Cathedral CemeteryJunius brutus Booth, John

Wilkes's father, did not marryMary Ann Holmes, his motheruntil Mary Christine AdelaideDelannoy divorced Junius in 1851-when John was 13.

Adelaide died at 66 in I6567 years after the divorce, buther epitaph still identifiedher as "Wife of Junius ErutusEooth, tragedian." Passersbyare asked to pray for her soul,being reminaed that "It is aholy and wholesome thought topray for the dead."

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William J . Ferguson (1644-1930) was a teen-age substituteperformer on the stage of Ford'sTheatre the night Lincoln wasshot. He is the author of abook titled "I Saw Booth ShootLincoln."

St. Mary's Church Cemetery,Bryant own, Md.

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Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd's; grave (which is being carefullypreserved by his descendants)gave his age at death in I863as 46, but the statistics on

- the modern replacement monumentshow that he was 49. His widow

. Sarah Dyer Mudd died in 1911.

St. Mary's Cemetery, BryantownDr. William Queen's grave-

stone is discolored to the pointof illegibility. He died in1866 at 76, and it was his son-in-law, John C. Thompson, whointroduced Dr. Mudd to Boothin front of St. Mary's Church.

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—-— -.emetery, EryantnwnWhen Anna Surratt was attend-

ing St. Mary's Institute atBryantown, one of her teacherswas Miss Winefrede Martin. Theartistic monuments of the Mar-tins are worthy of inclusionhere, along with the vital sta-tistics on Winefrede.

St. Mary's Cemetery. BryantownDr. George Dyer Mudd (1826-

1899) was Dr. Samuel Mudd's 2ndcousin and mentor who, at hisrelative's request told the Fed-eral authorities that two sus-picious persons had visitedDr. Sam's home before daybreakon April 15, 1865, one of whomhad an injured leg which Dr.Sam "bandaged." Dr. George was39 in 1865; Dr. Sam 31.

La Plata. MarylandThe original gravestone of

-Dr. Samuel A. Mudd is being heldsafe against vandalism by one ofhis grandchildren, Mrs. LouiseMudd Arehart.

St. Ignatius Churchyard,Chapel Point, Maryland

Father Bernardin Wiget isone of the two priests who ac-companied Mrs. Surratt to thescaffold. He died in I883 atage 62 without leaving anymemoirs, so far as is known.

Gol. Samuel Cox (1819-1880) of "Rich Hill", with thecooperation of his foster broth-er Thomas A. Jones, protectedBooth and Herold for about a

week after the assassination.

Greenlawn Cemetery, BowlingGreen, Virginia

Kiss Lucinda K. B. Hollo-way (1831-1909), a relative ofthe Garretts, was at the farmwhen Booth arrived there; andshe ministered to him in hisfinal hours. Her detailedholographic account of "theclose of the eventful careerof John Wilkes Booth" wouldseem to make any claim thatBooth did not die in her pres-ence at the farm on April 26,I865, rather ridiculous.

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Mt. Rest Cemetery, La Plata, Md .

J. Alexander Brawner (1835-1886) ran the hotel at Port To-bacco. He testified for thedefense in favor of "Port To-bacco" (George A.) Atzerodt atthe trial.

Mt. Rest Cemetery. La Plata, Md .

Frederick Stone (1820-1899) defended Davy Herold atthe trial of the alleged con-spirators. He was also one ofDr. Mudd's lawyers.

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Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg. Va .

Private Willie S. Jett, an 18-year-old stripling, was forced to reveal toUnion calvarymen who took him into cus-tody at Bowling Green, Va. , that Boothwas at the Garrett farm.

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lemetery, Brooklyn,

Laura Keene was the starof the play Lincoln was watchingwhen he was shot. She carefullysafeguarded her personal life,and it took a long, long timeto locate her burial site. Shedied in 1873 but her age atdeath is not known.

St. Ignatius Catholic Churchyard.Oxon Hill. Maryland

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'(1794-1878), Mrs. Surratt's moth-'er, was easily located in a coun-try churchyard not far from theSurratt Tavern. It is surpris-ing to learn that the mother sur-vived the daughter by more thana decade and that no indicationhas ever appeared in printed formwith respect to how the mother"withstood the grief that eventslaid at her door.

Mount Zion Methodist Churchyard,Bel Aj,r, Maryland

Harold C. Goettner ofBaltimore was the one who foundthe gravestone of Mrs. ElijahE. Rogers (1809-1899) not farfrom "Tudor Hall". Mrs. Rogerswas the Booths' neighbor whoanswered the questions put toher about them by a history-minded Dr. William Stump For-wooq of Harford County -- inwhich Bel Air is located. Dr.Forwood's extensive manuscripthas been preserved by theMaryland Historical Society inBaltimore.

St. Mary's Catholic Churchyard,Anderson. Indiana

Louis J. Weichmann (or Wiechmann), whodied on June 5, 1902, was a college mateof John H. Surratt and, later, a boarderat the Surratt house in Washington . "Lou",as he was called, was a brainy, educated,and ingratiating young man whom, accord-ing to evidence produced at the I865 Trial,Mrs. Surratt treated much as if he wereher own son. Although he consistentlymaintained that his testimony regardingMrs. Surratt and her actions was truthful,he never saw fit to deny John Surratt'saccusation that he, Weichmann, was a partyto the original plan to kidnap Lincoln.

Solely for the purpose of fillingin some blank space, the 1926 newspaperphotos of the Old Capitol Prison andof the Garrett farmhouse are here repro-duced. Mrs. Surratt and innumerableother Confederate sympathizers likeThomas A. Jones and Col. Samuel Coxwere incarcerated at the Ola Capitol.And john Wilkes Booth breathed his laston the porch near the front door ofthe Garrett farmhouse.

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APPENDIX

Maps

On the three pages that follow will be found segments

taken from a present-day road map of the State of Maryland

showing locations mentioned in this booklet. Permission to

use the map was obtained from the Maryland Department of

Transportation.

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3.

4.

John Wilkes Booth was born in a log cabin near Bel Air, Md. , in 1838.His initial schooling took place in Baltimore cir. 1844-46, and he at-tended the Bel Air Academy cir. 1846-51.

His education included a year (cir. 1853-54) spent at Milton Boys'School run by an elderly Quaker named Lamb, near Cockeysville, Md.

At St. Timothy's Hall in Catonsville, Md., cir. 1851-52, Booth's school- '.

mate was Samuel Bland Arnold.In Baltimore a boy named Michael O'Laughlin lived close by the Booth

family on North Exeter Street in houses now gone.(John Wilkes Booth, Samuel Bland Arnold, and Michael O'Laughlin are all

buried in the same cemetery in Baltimore.)

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Petersen H °use, and Mrs. Surratt's boarding5™?* °£ Street, Northwest, are all located in downtown Washington!Booth and an^ associate named David E. Herold should not have been? butthey were, permitted to cross the Navy Yard Bridge the night of the assas-sin3tion

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The beginning of the Maryland segment of the Booth Escape Route.

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7. The beginning of the Maryland segment of the Booth Escape RouteS. Twelve miles away from Ford's Theatre, the midnight riders paused at

the Surratt Tavern in Surrattsville (now Clinton) being run by one JohnM. Lloyd. There they gulped down some swigs of whiskey, picked up acarbine, and in all likelihood watered their horses.

9. Whether the two horsemen proceeded to Dr. Mudd T s via Horsehead, orwhether they took a more direct route, is a matter of speculation.

10. Just before dawn on Sat., Apr. 15, the fugitives stopped at the'home of Samuel A. Mudd, M.D. — to have Booth's injured leg attended to,

11. For obvious reasons Booth avoided Bryantown on his flight south, buthe had previously been a guest at the Bryantown Tavern that is now serv-ing as a private home.

12. Dr. Mudd is buried in the cemetery of St. Mary's Catholic Church inBryantown, a few yards away from the spot where he was introduced toBooth in the fall of 1364.

13. Port Tobacco was a busy Confederate spy center throughout the War.George A. ("Port Tobacco") Atzerodt worked there as a carriage painter.

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Port Tobacco, a Confederate spy center in Maryland."Rich Hill n was the home an affluent Confederate sympathizer named

Col. Samuel CoxCol. Cox and his foster-brother Thomas A. Jones hid, fed, and safe-

guarded the fugitives for about a week in a thicket not far from "RichHill."

The two wanted men departed Maryland 1 s shores from below Dent'sMeadow in a rowboat headed for Virginia on the other side of thePotomac River.

Daylight found the mariners not in Virginia but on the eastern bankof Nanjemoy Creek. Nearby was the house, now gone, of a not unfriendlyCol. John J. Hughes.

Mrs. Quesenberry furnished assistance to the wayfarers shortly afterthey touched land near her home on the Virginia shore.

At "Cleydael," Dr. Richard Stuart's home, the outlaws were fed withreluctance and refused shelter.

Booth and Herold met the 18-year-old Willie Jett on the Port Conwayside of a Rappahannock River ferry in Virginia.

Booth died from a gunshot wound and Herold was taken prisoner bythe Union forces at the Garrett farm early on the morning of April 26,I865.

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INDEX

Alexandria, Virginia, National Cemetery, 22Armed Forces Medical Museum, 14Appendices:

Cemeteries and gravestones, 17-27Maps, 23-31

Arehart, Louise Mudd, 25Arlington Cemetery, 20Arnold, Samuel Bland, 3, 15, 16, 23, 29Atzerodt, George A., 12, 15, 26, 30

Barnes, Surgeon General Joseph K. , 21Bel Air Academy, 3Bel Air Courthouse, 4Bergantino, Robert N. , 14Black Diamond - Massachusetts collision, 22 ,

-Bones of human leg (drawing) , 11Booth, Edwin, 4, 23Booth, Edwin (infant son of Joseph A.), 23Booth, John Wilkes

Birth, 2

Bel Air homes, 2, 3Baltimore home, 29Education, 3, 29Delayed marriage of parents. 24Nicknamed "Billy Bowlegs, rt loPhotographs of, 1, 2Kidnap plot, 10, 27Pays visits to Mrs. Surratt's boarding house, 7Alleged conspirators, 15Takes drink before shooting President Lincoln, 19The murder weapon, 5Injures leg at Ford's Theatre, 5Succeeds in crossing Navy Yard Bridge, 29Heads south in company with Herold, 10Stops briefly at Surratt Tavern, 6, 10Has leg bandaged at Dr. Mudd's, 10Arrives at Colonel Cox' , 11Is hidden in thicket for about a week, 12Heads for Virginia shore in rowboat, 13Finds himself still in Maryland next morning, 31Arriving in Virginia, is accorded aid by Mrs. Quesenberry, 13, 31Is inhospitably received by Dr. Stuart, 13Crosses Rappahannock at Port Conway, ljIs trapped in tobacco shed and dies of gunshot wound, 14Diary found on his body, 15General Barnes witnesses autopsy, 21Remains removed from Arsenal Penitentiary and buried in Balto, 23Spools from spine and curl from forehead, 14Crutch segment memento, 15

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Booth, Joseph Adrian, 23Booth, Junius Brutus, Jr., 23Booth, Junius Brutus, Sr., 23, 24Booth, Mary Ann Holmes, 4, 24Booth, Mary Christ:Booth, Richard, 23Booth, Rosalie, 23Booths

Baltimore home, 29Bel Air homes, 2, 3, 4, 29Book, The Mad Booths of Maryland , 2

Cemetery lot in Baltimore, 23Crack toward insanity in male line, 2Silverware, 4

Brawner, J. Alexander, 26Brown &, Alexander, Undertakers, 20Bryantown Hotel or Tavern, 11, 30

Carroll vault, Oak Hill Cemetery, 21Cattell, Henry P., 20Cemeteries and gravestones, 17-27Chaconas, Mrs. Joan L. , 12Chimney House at Port Tobacco, 12Civilians drowned "in pursuit of Booth", 22Clarke, Mrs. Asia Booth, 23Clarke, Jeannine, 2"Cleydael," Dr. Stuart's house, 13, 31Collis house, 12Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Vii ^inia, 26Congressional Cemetery, 19-20"Conspirators", 7, 15Corbett, Boston, 14Cox, Col. Samuel, 11, 12, 26. 27, 31Cuff, Laura Keene's bloody, o

Delannoy, Mary Christine Adelaide, 24Dent' s Meadow, 13Derringer used by Booth, 5Diary, 15Doherty, Captain Edward P., 20Door to Presidential Box at Ford's Theatre, 5Drawing illustrating assassination, 6Duvall, Betty (a.k.a. Bettie Duval Webb) , 21

Execution of Mrs. Surratt , Paine, Herold, Atzerodt, 15Exhibits

Armed Forces Medical Museum, 14Ford's Theatre, 1, 5, 6, 7, 15, 29Surratt Tavern, 9

Ferguson, William J., 24Ford, Antonia (a.k.a. Mrs. Joseph C. Willard), 21

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Ford's Theatre, 1, 5, 6, 7, 15, 19Fort Jefferson (Dry Tortugas) , 23Fort McNair (Old Arsenal Penitentiary), 15, IB,' 19Forwood, Dr. William Stump, 27

Garrett house and farm, 13, 14, 15, 26, 27, 31George, David E., 15, 16Goettner, Harold C, 2, 27Gravestones, 17-27Greenhow, Rose O'Neal, 21Green Lawn Cemetery, Bowling Green, Virginia, 26Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, 23Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, 26Gurowski, Count Adam de, 20

Hall, James 0., 1, 12, 14, 27Hall of Fame, 4Hansell, Emerick W. , 19Harbin, Thomas H., 19Harris, Clara, 5Herold, David E. , 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 19, 26, 31Historical markers. 4, 8, 12, 14Hoaxes (book title), 16Holloway, Lucinda K.B., 14, 26Horsehead, Maryland, 10, 30"Huckleberry," 12Hughes, Colonel John J., 31

Jenkins, Mrs. E. A. Webster, 27Jesuits, 12Jett, Willie S. , 26Johnson, President Andrew, 7, 19Johnson, Senator Reverdy, 23Jones, Thomas A., 12, 13, 19, 26, 27, 31

Kauffman, Michael W., 20Keene, Laura, 6, 26Kidnap plot, 10, 27Kirk silver service, 4

La Plata, Maryland, 2 5

Lincoln, Abraham, 1, 5, 6, 7, 10, 20, 21, 26

Lincoln, Abraham II, 20Lincoln, "Little Willie," 21Lincoln, Robert Todd, 20Lloyd, John Minchin, IS, 30Log house at Bel Air, 2, 3

Loux, Arthur F. , 1

Lutz house in Georgetown, D.C., 6

Maps, 28-31Martin, P.E. ("Pep") and Raymond A., 13Martin, Winefrede, 2 5

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Massachusetts collision with Black Diamond , 22McNair , Fort Lesley J. (Old Arsenal Penitentiary), 19, 27Memoirs of Samuel Bland Arnold, 16, 23Milton Boys T Boarding School, 3, 29Montgomery or Bryantown Hotel or Tavern, 11Motley, Maude B. , 15Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C., IS-19Mount Rest Cemetery, La Plata, Maryland, 26Mount Zion Methodist Churchyard, Bel Air, Maryland, 27Mudd, Dr. George Dyer, 25Mudd, Dr. and Mrs. Richard Dyer, 4Mudd, Dr. Samuel Alexander, 4, 10, 11, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26Mudd, Sarah Dyer, widow of Dr. Samuel A., 24Mummy of David E. George, 16

Navy Yard Bridge, 29New Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, 24Nicolay, John George, 21

Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D. C, 21O'Laughlin (O'Laughlen) , Michael, Jr., 15, 23, 29Old Arsenal Penitentiary (Fort Lesley J. McNair), 19Old Capitol Prison, 19, 20, 27Oldroyd, Csborn H., 10, 12, 13, 22

Paine, Lewis Powell, 15, 19Percy, Senator Charles H. , SPetersen House, 7, 21, 22, 29Petersen, William, 22Peyton, the Misses, 15Port Conway, Virginia, 13Port Royal, Virginia, 13Port Tobacco, Maryland, 12, 30Post card views, 1, 7Presidential box at Ford's Theatre, 5, 6Prospect Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C., 22

Queen, Dr. William, 24Quesenberry, Mrs. Elizabeth, 13 , 31

Rathbone, Major Henry R. , 5Richards, Almarin Cooley, 22nRich Hill," Colonel Cox' house, 11, 12, 26, 31Road maps, 2B-31Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D. C. . 22Rockville Address of John H. Surratt, 16Rogers, Mrs. Elijah B. (neighbor of the Booths), 27

St. Ignatius Churchyard, Chapel Point, Maryland, 25St. Ignatius Churchyard, Oxon Hill, Maryland, 27St. Mary's Church, Bryantown, Marylana , 11, 24-25St. Mary's Churchyard, Anderson, Indiana, 27St. Timothy's Hall, Catonsville, Karylana, 3, 29Scaffold at Old Arsenal Penitentiary, 15Seward, William H., 19

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Silverware of Junius Brutus Booth, LSilverware made for Cruiser Maryland 4Spangler, Ediaan, 15

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Spies, ConfederateBetty Duvall, 20Antonia Ford, 21

Stanton, Edwin M. , 20, 21Star Saloon, 19Stone, Frederick, 26Stuart, Dr. Richard, 13 , 31Surratt, Anna, 15, ISSurratt Boarding House in Washington, 7 8 2QSurratt House or Tavern in Clinton, Maryland, 8, 9 30Surratt, Isaac Douglas, 18 ' '

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Surratt, John H., Jr., 8, 16, 24, 27Surratt, Mrs. Mary E. , 8, 15, 18 23, 27Surratt Society, 9, 12Sweet-water spring at "Tudor Hall", 2

Taltavul, Peter, 19Tanner, Corporal James, 20"T.B.", Maryland, 9Thompson, John C. , 24

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SXeCUti0n 0f "conspirators", 15

Tonry,' William S." J 18Tours of Booth Escape Route, 1 14Treasury Guards flag, 5Trial of the Booth "conspirators". 15 27 23"Tudor Hall", Bel Air, Maryland, 3,4,' 27

Ulke, Henry, 21

Verge, Laurie M. , 9

Walter, Father Jacob A., 18Weapons of conspirators, 7Weaver receiving vault, 23Webb, Bettie Duval (a.k.a. Betty Duvall), 21Weichmann (or Wiechmann), Louis J

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Western Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, 24Wiget, Father Bernardin, 25Willard, Major Joseph C. (and wife Antonia), 21Wirz, Captain Henry, 19Wood, Colonel William P., 19W.P.A. mural in Bel Air Post Office, 4

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August 20, 1979

Mr. John C. Brennan513 T%in StreetLaurel, Maryland 20810

Dear Mr. Brennan:

Thank you very rauch for your intriguing "Pictorial Primer."I've not "been much in the Washington area, and to see pictures ofthese sites is quite a treat for me. Unfortunately, the "Primer"doe3 not qualify as Lincolniana to be listed in our regular "Bibliog-raphy" in Lincoln Lore because it is not printed. Nevertheless, I'llsee to it that it gets mention in my next "Lincoln Historiography:News and Notes" column, which reviews items of Lincoln interest whichdon't fit our rules.

Sincerely yours,

Mark E. Neely, Jr,

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