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Note from page 580: 1. Lamon.

Note from page 581: 2. See Denton Offutt to AL, Feb. 11, 1861, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress.

Note from page 581: 3. Probably Josephus Hewitt, who came to Springfield about 1830 and read law with Stephen T. Logan.

Note from page 581: 4. See p. 273, note 13.

Note from page 581: 5. See p. 270, note 9.

Note from page 581: 6. George Atzerodt, one of Booth's co-conspirators, was assigned the task of assassinating Vice President Johnson but lost his nerve at the last moment.

Note from page 582: 7. Probably John H. Sothoron, who killed a white army lieutenant who was recruiting blacks along the Patuxent River in Maryland.