Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

[Wild Bill]

We need to remember that Booth and Johnson were running women in Nashville according to Hamilton Gay Howard, Civil War Echoes, so they may have been more friendly than history assumes. Booth had a pass through Union Lines from one of Grant's AAAG's for the Western Theater. Maybe he wanted the same from Johnson, just in case, for the Eastern Theater, to get by the Navy Yard Bridge, beyond the password that Mrs Surratt had picked up for him. Johnson was easier to find than another of Grant's AAAG's (Acting Assistant Adjutant General--a fancy title for a military clerk)