"Stump the Yankee"

[Gene C]

Not only that, but in the classic "Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth" by Finis Bates, there is an entire chapter entitled "John St. Helen lectures Roland Reed".
(chapter 3)

http://books.google.com/books?id=PX9Rjix...or&f=false

It's a small world.

The above incident referred to by Laurie is recorded in "Famous Actors of the Day: In America" by Lewis Clinton Strang p.303
http://books.google.com/books?id=CsjHIOp...or&f=false