The Last Official Theatrical Booth Appearance

[Tom Bogar]

Hi Tom: do you believe that Booth's March 18, 1865 performance was at Ford's?

Absolutely, by all sources I found. The benefit was for his good friend John McCullough (who played Hemaya) in The Apostate, opposite Booth's Pescara; it also featured Alice Grey (picture on Booth’s body), and the drama of Jonathan Bradford with the entire company, incl. 4/14 performers Jeannie Gourlay (as Annie Bradford) and Will Ferguson (on both plays). The Daily National Intelligencer (3/18) praises Booth, and says “If he shall be well, and in good voice, we venture to predict that he will create a sensation tonight.”