Actor *Miss Cushman – Actor Edward Spangler – Stagehand *Edwin Forrest – Actor *Junius Brutus Booth – Actor, father of John Wilkes Booth *Edwin Booth – Actor, brother of John Wilkes Booth *J.B. Booth, Jr. – Theater manager *Mrs. Siddons – Actor *Senator Pomeroy – Senator from KS, Chase’s campaign manager Whitelaw Reid – Journalist from Cincinnati Gazette Ella Turner – John Wilkes Booth’s date *F. W. Hurtt – Henry Cooke’s partner, owner of Ohio State Journal *Isaac J. Allen – Editor and partner in Ohio State Journal Hiram Barney – Customs collector, Port of New York General Magruder – Union commander in Galveston *William Wheatley – Actor Ch 2 Ira Harris – Senator from NY *Teresa Sickles – Sickles’s wife *Katherine Helm – Emilie’s daughter Ch 3 *Schuyler Colfax – Speaker of the House *James G. Blaine – Congressman from ME, newspaper editor *James A. Garfield – Congressman, Union major-general at Chickamauga John T. Trowbridge – Chase’s biographer *Senator Sherman – Senator and pamphleteer *Mr. Winchell – NY journalist and pamphleteer *Isaac Newton – Director of Agriculture Bureau *Simeon Draper – Collector, Port of New York Fred Grant – General Grant’s son *William Mortimer – Government appointee, friend of Mrs. Lincoln *William Tecumseh Sherman – Union general Ch 4 *James S. Wadsworth – Union general, friend of Lincoln *Governor Andrew – Governor of NY *Mr. Dickinson – NY politician *Emperor Maximillian – French ruler in Mexico Julia Ward Howe – Poet *John Burrows – Treasury Department clerk, literary man Maunsell B. Field – Chase’s aide and protégé *Baron Renfrew – Prince of Wales *Jenny Lind – Swedish soprano *John C. Cisco – Treasurer of NY *Senator Morgan – Senator from NY *Senator Chase – Senator from NY *Dave Tod – Governor of OH, nominated by Lincoln as Secretary of the Treasury *General Schenk – Union commander Mr. Hooper – Congressman, friend of Chase Senator Conness – Senator Louis XVI – King of France M. Necker – Louis’ finance minister Ch 5 *Jubal Early – Confederate general at Washington *Lew Wallace – Union general at Monocacy Junction Horatio Wright – Union major general at Washington *Abram Wakeman – Candidate for Surveyor of NY *A.T. Stewart – NY merchant Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. – Union lieutenant colonel, son of the poet Ch 6 *Philip Sheridan – Union general *Admiral Farragut – Union naval commander Mr. Nichols – Union soldier in Lincoln’s