593 "correspondingly exhilarating": Katherine Helm, The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928), p. 253.

593 "been very miserable": Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, pp. 283285; WHH, interview with Man' Lincoln, Sept. 5, 1866, HWC.

593 "in the morning": Isaac N. Arnold, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1885), p. 431.

594 "can toward it": Benjamin P. Thomas and Harold M. Hyman, Stanton: The Life and Times of Lincoln's Secretary of War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), p. 395; Bryan, Great American Myth, p. 137.

594 "great an exposure": Storey, "d.i.c.kens, Stanton, Sumner, and Storey," p. 464.

594 "you with us": David Homer Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office (New York: Century Co., 1907), pp. 366367.

595 $2.50 each: C. H. Martin, "Reminiscences of a Columbia Boy of the a.s.sa.s.sination of President Lincoln," Papers Read Before the Lancaster County Historical Society 31 (June 3, 1927): 72.

595 "never-to-be-forgotten smiles": E. R. Shaw, "The a.s.sa.s.sination of Lincoln," McClure's Magazine 32 (Dec. 1908): 181184.

595 above the stage: For Alfred Waud's contemporary sketch and precise measurements, see Robert H. Fowler, The a.s.sa.s.sination of Abraham Lincoln (Conshohocken, Pa.: Eastern Acorn Press, 1984), p. 15.

595 "order of the President!": Furtw.a.n.gler, a.s.sa.s.sin on Stage, p. 104.

595 "witnessing his enjoyment": Bryan, Great American Myth, p. 176.

595 "thing about it": Randall, Mary Lincoln, p. 382.

596 "must be done": William Hanchett, "Booth's Diary," JISHS 72 (Feb. 1979): 40.

596 elections in the North: John C. Brennan, "Why the Attempt to a.s.sa.s.sinate Secretary of State William H. Seward?" Surratt Courier 12 (Jan. 1987).

596 "taken at R[ichmon]d": Bryan, Great American Myth, p. 119.

596 "not to kill": Wilson, John Wilkes Booth, p. 97.

596 a superior officer: Brennan, "Why the Attempt to a.s.sa.s.sinate ... Seward?" p. 4.

597 "will justify me": Wilson, John Wilkes Booth, p. 107.

597 "for this end": Hanchett, "Booth's Diary," pp. 4041.

597 "I had ever seen": Shaw, "The a.s.sa.s.sination of Lincoln," p. 185.

597 John Parker: The whereabouts of Parker has been a subject of considerable controversy. The clearest statement of the evidence is in Champ Clark, The a.s.sa.s.sination: The Death of the President (New York: Time-Life Books, 1987), pp. 8283.

597 10:13 P.M.: This is the time that Otto Eisenschiml arrived at after much research and calculation. Eisenschiml, The Case of A. L., Aged 56 (Chicago: Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 1943), p. 13.

597 "him very weak": Surratt Courier 12 (Nov. 1987): 2.

597 "Sic semper tyrannis": Since events moved so quickly, there was understandable controversy about what Booth said and when he said it. In his diary he claimed, "I shouted Sic semper before I fired." Hanchett, "Booth's Diary," p. 40. Most witnesses agreed that he gave his shout after jumping to the stage. Some claimed that he also shouted, "The South is avenged." James S. Knox to his father, Apr. 15, 1865, Lincoln MSS, LC.

597 "a bull frog": Reck, A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours, p. 107.