"Lincoln's Last Days" Vocabulary from Part Four and Afterword

They meet up at their rendezvous spot of Soper’s Hill in the dead of night.

Booth also has left behind clues—among them a business card bearing the name J. Harrison Surratt and a letter from Samuel Arnold, who had been part of the kidnapping plot, that implicates Michael O’Laughlen.

A few blocks away, detectives question Secretary of State Seward’s household staff and add two more nameless individuals to the list: the man who attacked Seward and his accomplice, who was seen waiting outside.

Just before dusk, he rouses Booth and helps him down the stairs and up into the saddle.

On his first visit to the campsite, he merely wants to get a look at the men to see if they are capable of enduring what might be a very long wait until it is safe to cross.

But his melancholy soon turns to rage as he learns that his actions are not being applauded.

In it, he writes his reflections on killing Lincoln, just to make sure that his point of view is properly recorded for posterity.

“I can never repent it, though we hated to kill...

He also has his hired agents out searching, but his efforts to send and receive messages are hampered by the lack of
telegraph lines through the Maryland and northern Virginia countryside.

They spoke after Easter services, when Booth and Herold were still very much in the vicinity.

Rather than present himself as eager for the “entire strangers” to be captured, he is vague and contrary.

Mary Lincoln is still so distraught that she will spend the next five weeks sobbing in her bedroom.

Booth sits in the back and dangles his oar in the water under the pretense of steering.

Booth and Herold refuse, though not in a belligerent way.

She looks up at the ten-foot-high gallows, newly built for the execution of the conspirators.

Edwin Stanton did not live long after the death of Abraham Lincoln, and those years he did live were fraught with controversy.

Few men could have successfully followed Abraham Lincoln as president, but Andrew Johnson proved particu-
larly inept.

His Reconstruction policies were bitterly divisive, to the point that he warred openly with Congress.

William Seward would live just seven more years after being attacked in his own bed on the night of Lincoln’s
assassination, but in that time he would undertake an activity that would leave an even longer-lasting legacy
than the heinous attack.

Baker became increasingly paranoid after the congressional investigation, certain that he would be murdered.

Incredibly, Parker was not held accountable for shirking his duties.

Formal police charges of dereliction of duty were brought against Parker, but once again he was acquitted.

He remained in the army, helping to implement Reconstruction policies that guaranteed the black vote.

In 1887, he was sent to an insane asylum after brandishing a revolver in the legislature.

Even though he became a justice of the peace after the war, the tight-lipped former member of the Confederate Secret Service was ever after wary of persecution for aiding the conspirators.