Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

[Wild Bill]

Isn't there an article on all of this?

Arthur F Loux, "Mystery of the Telegraphic interruption," Lincoln Herald, 81 (Winter 1979), 234-37.

Lou finds that the shut-down involved only one of several telegraphic companies, which had as a customer the military telegraph. The shut down was intentional to prevent possible communication between co-conspoirators and from keeping Lincoln's assassination from the Deep South where it might have interfered with Inion soldiers accepting the peaceable surrender of Confederate troops.

There are also relevant articles by Louz and James O Hall in Dillon's The Lincoln Assassination: From the p\Pages of the Surratt Courier, III, 7-9, 11-12.