ALS signed “William M. Cooper,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, April 25, 1865. Letter written from Point of Rocks Hospital, Virginia, in part: “We have indeed suffered a severe loss in our Beloved President so good a man to be basely shot in the Back by a cowardly assassin. Pity that God has not struck his Base Arm with paralysis ere it had been raised against the life of ‘Uncle Abe.’ I hope he may be caught and turned over to the Soldiers for punishment I mean Boothe. I think that Andy Johnson will bring these Rebs to their right senses. At all events he talks as though he would….We have all sorts of rumors here about going home but I can’t say how soon they will be realities.” In fine condition. Booth was tracked down and killed the next day in Port Royal, Virginia, about sixty miles north of Point of Rocks.
