– Senator from NH Bessie Hale – Senator Hale’s daughter, inamorata of John Wilkes Booth *Thaddeus Stevens – Congressman from PA, chair of Ways and Means Committee M. Mercier – French minister to US Baron Gerolt – Prussian minister to US *Governor Hardin – Governor of Kentucky Mr. Watt – White House groundsman *William S. Wood – Commissioner of Public Buildings Ch 16 *Mrs Cuthbert – White House housekeeper Mr Anderson – Virginia innkeeper, Marshall House Ch 17 Mr Stevens – President of New York Bank of Commerce Mr Vail – Cashier of New York Bank of Commerce Morris Ketchum – Independent banker William Henry Aspenwall – Independent banker *Mr Merryman – Prisoner of US Army in Baltimore, held without charge *General Cadwalder – Union leader at Ft McHenry Ch 18 Irvin McDowell – General, Union Army of the Potomac *General Mansfield – Union commander *General McClellan – Union commander *Charles Francis Adams – US minister to England John Bigelow – Former editor of NY Evening Post, US minister to France *General Johnston – Confederate commander at Harper’s Ferry *General Bates – Union commander *General Fremont – Union commander in West John Forney – Clerk of the Senate, editor of Washington Chronicle *William O. Stoddard – Mrs. Lincoln’s aide Ch 19 William Fessenden – Senator from ME, later Secretary of Treasury after Chase LymanTrumbull – Senator from IL William Howard Russell – Times of London war correspondent William Sanford – Union captain, General McClellan’s aide *Julia Trumbull – Senator Trumbull’s wife, former friend of Mrs Lincoln *James Gordon Bennett, Jr. – Bennett’s son Ch 20 Rose Greenhow – Great-niece of Dolly Madison, Aunt of Stephen Douglas, confederate informant Bettie Duvall – Confederate informant *Reverend Doctor James Smith – Presbyterian minister from Springfield, friend of Mrs Lincoln, proposed as US minister to Scotland Benjamin Wade – Senator from OH, radical abolitionist James Grimes – Senator from IA Henry Wilson – Senator from MA *George Washington – Headwaiter at Willard’s Hotel Part 2 - Ch 1 *Major French – Commissioner of Public Buildings *Alexander T. Stewart – NY department store magnate *Edward D. Baker – Former IL senator and friend of Lincoln *General Hunter – Union commander *General Henry E. Halleck – Union commander in West; protégé of Scott *Senator Johnson – Senator from TN, Unionist *Clausewitz – German political theorist *Judge Davis – Friend of Lincoln, appointed to the Supreme Court