John Wilkes Booth: By a Man Who Helped Him Escape (Annotated)

At the time of the Lincoln assassination, Thomas A. Jones was 45 years old and had spent the years of the civil war working "with zeal" in the Confederate cause in Southern Maryland. He primarily acted as an aid to Confederate spies moving through Charles County and helping the substantial intelligence network by moving mail.

By the time that Jones wrote this account of having helped John Wilkes Booth in his escape, his assessment of Abraham Lincoln had gone through a transformation. As he t...