Andrew Johnson - Mistress

[jparkuntz]

The biggest reason that I discount that it was Eusebia Fitzgerald was that, prior to the date of the assassination, her husband Robert M. Lee had been found guilty in a Philadelphia court, but had escaped the courtroom and was a fugitive. He had not yet been sentenced. Johnson was not yet president, and couldn't issue pardons on his own--and even if he could, I don't think even Johnson would have pardoned a fugitive. So there was no good reason for her to be in Washington, and every reason for her to be in Philadelphia trying to establish contact and help her runaway husband.

But I do think she had a relationship with Johnson, probably dating back before the war when he was a senator; and revived later in 1865 when she did seek pardons for R. M. Lee.

What time did Farwell knock?