Episodes
-In this episode: Ned writes a letter to Wilkes. Finis.
Published 08/20/06
-In this episode: Bainbridge, Ruggles and Jett
Published 08/19/06
-In this episode: Escape: Thomas Jones gets Wilkes to the Potomac.
Published 08/18/06
-In this episode: Escape: Dr. Samuel Mudd treats Wilkes' broken leg
Published 08/17/06
-In this episode: The assassination
Published 08/16/06
-In this episode: Wilkes learns that Lincoln is going to the theater. He makes his preparations.
Published 08/15/06
-In this episode: Wilkes urges the managers of two Washington theaters to invite Lincoln to a performance on Good Friday night. Surratt tells Wilkes he will have to escape to Canada.
Published 08/14/06
-In this episode: As their cause becomes more desperate, the Confederates decide to kill Lincoln - but without involving Wilkes. Richmond falls, and Wilkes - despondent - disbands his crew. But the Rebel plan is thwarted, and Mary Surratt asks Wilkes to assassinate th
Published 08/13/06
-In this episode: Now Richmond doesn't want Lincoln snatched. Wilkes is devastated.
Published 08/12/06
-In this episode: Wilkes takes his crew to a play at Ford's Theater. An attempt to snatch the President on the Seventh Street Road fails when Lincoln doesn't show.
Published 08/11/06
-In this episode: Wilkes goes to the inaugural ball but, out of concern for Lucy Hale, decides not to snatch the President there.
Published 08/10/06
-In this episode: Wilkes and Surratt decide to snatch Lincoln at his inaugural ball, and Wilkes concocts a clever way to get into the event.
Published 08/10/06
-In this episode: Wilkes gets a tour of John Ford's new theater in Washington, then meets a new conspirator - Lewis Thornton Powell.
Published 08/09/06
-In this episode: Wilkes leaves an envelope with Asia in Philadelphia, then meets the conspirators in Washington.
Published 08/08/06
-In this episode: While the three Booths perform "Julius Caesar", Confederates raid New York City, setting fires on Broadway in the hotels and theaters.
Published 08/07/06
-In this episode: Lincoln is re-elected, and Wilkes meets Dr. Samuel Mudd.
Published 08/06/06
-In this episode: Wilkes tells Asia of the Lincoln kidnap plot.Wilkes meets Patrick Martin in Montreal, makes his first contacts on the route he plans to use to take the kidnapped President to Richmond, and gets details on Lincoln's routine.
Published 08/05/06
-In this episode: In Boston, Wilkes meets with Confederate agents from Canada and signs on to a plot to kidnap President Lincoln.
Published 08/04/06
-In this episode: Lincoln is nominated for a second term, and Wilkes prospects for oil in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
Published 08/03/06
-In this episode: Sick and exhausted, Wilkes tours Southern towns under Union occupation while General Grant cuts a swath through Virginia. In New Orleans, Wilkes hears the story of how his father died.
Published 08/02/06
-In this episode: Trying to get to St. Louis, Wilkes spends Christmas in Leavenworth, is stranded in a blizzard and fights off a wolf.
Published 07/30/06
-In this episode: Wilkes, Edwin and Adam survive the New York City draft riots.
Published 07/29/06
-In this episode: John Surratt, a Confederate spy, contacts Wilkes and shows him the courier route from Washington to the Northern Neck of Virginia through T.B., Surrattsville and the Maryland countryside, and across the Potomac at Port Tobacco.
Published 07/27/06
-In this episode: Since Mollie's death, Edwin has been seeing and hearing her. With Adam's help, he arranges a seance to try to contact her.
Published 07/26/06