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From what I have read, the most likely explanation for the missing pages was that Booth used them for T.P. while he was stuck out in the woods.
Was Secretary of war Edwin Stanton involved in the Lincoln assassination ?
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From what I have read, the most likely explanation for the missing pages was that Booth used them for T.P. while he was stuck out in the woods.
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SorryToo much information, Obi!
, but it is an explanation that I have read but I can not recall which it was, it may have been Steers' Blood on the Moon or His Name is Still Mudd.
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I read something like that, too. But I couldn't tell you where.Sorry
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The Diary of John Wilkes Booth - CIVIL WAR SAGA
When John Wilkes Booth fled Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865 and was killed on a farm in Virginia two weeks later, officers found a red leather diary on his body that contained two diary entries, written in pencil, and photos of five women, one of which was his secret…
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Personal belongings found on John Wilkes Booth’s body include his diary and several photos of women
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I recognize one women, Lucy HaleThe Diary of John Wilkes Booth - CIVIL WAR SAGA
When John Wilkes Booth fled Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865 and was killed on a farm in Virginia two weeks later, officers found a red leather diary on his body that contained two diary entries, written in pencil, and photos of five women, one of which was his secret…civilwarsaga.com
Personal belongings found on John Wilkes Booth’s body include his diary and several photos of women
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Yes, she was quite the popular lady - one of her admirers was Robert Todd Lincoln! (That fellow is the spookiest guy in our history...)
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Daughter of U.S. senator Hale as I recall.
I may have read about the missing pages possible use as T.P. in a Civil War Times or America's Civil War magazine article.
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I remember. Booth sure didn't like that. However I don't know too much about Robert tell me what made him spooky ?
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He definitely had mama issues.
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Robert Todd Lincoln fell off a railway platform and Booth's brother pulled him to safety...then he was present at two presidential assassinations - Garfield and McKinley. (He declined to attend Roosevelt's inauguration, saying he didn't think he'd be good luck...) And, yes, mama issues - he put her in the nut house.
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Edwin Booth saved him. Mary Todd Lincoln just lost her mind after Lincoln died and seamed unstable after one of her sons died.
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Edwin, one of the "Mad Booths" of Maryland.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048510/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
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I've come to think Mary Lincoln was not quite as mad as it seemed. She'd lost some brothers during the war, was accused of being a Confederate sympathizer, kids dying, husband getting shot in front of her, and she had a skull fracture from a carriage wreck. Add to that she was a plantation hot house orchid who married somebody who decidedly could not keep her in the style to which she had been accustomed... Altogether, with a mercurial temperament and a lot of misery, she probably had more right to be a little bats than most!
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Didn't she have Confederate officer relatives ?, also I may post a thread on this movie but it's called Feild of Lost shoes and it was saying that the General John C. Breckenridge who was the former Vice President was her cousin and in the movie he got a letter from her telling him about General Segiel who Grant sent out there. I'm doubtful that happened but I would like to hear more.
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The patriarch sure was! Guess he passed on the kill the king gene - he threatened to kill Andrew Jackson. Good luck with that! Bullets bounced off Andy's chest... and then he'd beat you to death with his cane.
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One them was a general killed at Chickamauga,Lincon cried when he heard of it.
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His name was Benjamin Hardin Helm...took me a minute to remember his name
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Lincoln's in-laws were heavy on the Confederate side - he had, I think, five brothers-in-law who were in the CSA army. Mary's sister had married Confederate as well. Two of her brothers, Sam and Alexander, were killed in the war, and Lincoln did cry about them.
Benjamin Hardin Helm was Mary Lincoln's brother-in-law, and by the custom in that time, Lincoln's as well.
Benjamin Hardin Helm was Mary Lincoln's brother-in-law, and by the custom in that time, Lincoln's as well.
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At least it never turned into...this
I will leave to you to post a link to Hush, Hush....
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