Trivia 12-19-16 Pics of the Ladies

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The photographs of five women were found among Booth's possessions.

BONUS: Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke. She delivered medical supplies to a company of soldiers from her hometown and then remained as a nurse in the Union armies in the western theater. She was present at nineteen major battles, including the siege of Vicksburg and the Atlanta campaign. (Thanks @donna http://civilwartalk.com/threads/calico-colonel.73142/ )
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"...One of the objects Conger brought back to Washington with him was Booth’s diary which contained the photographs of five ladies."
Alice Grey, Effie Germon, Helen Western, Lucy Hale, and Fanny Brown
https://www.google.com/amp/s/boothi...s-booths-mysterious-beauty/amp/?client=safari

Bonus:
"Calico Colonel. A nickname for Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, a widow from Galesburg, Ohio, who delivered medical supplies to a company of soldiers from the town and then remained as a nurse in the Union armies in the western theatre."
 
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The photos included four actresses of the day, Alice Grey, Helen Western, Effie Germon, and Fanny Brown. The fifth was Lucy Hale, daughter of John P. Hale, former senator from New Hampshire and a prominent Republican abolitionist. Lucy and Booth were secretly engaged a month before the assassination. Some say it was she who invited Booth to attend Lincoln's second inauguration, after which Booth reportedly told his co-conspirators, "What an excellent chance I had to kill him then."

bonus: Answer - Mary Ann Bickerdyke
source- CivilWarTalk.
 
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