Booth's mistress, Ella Starr, and other "unknown" Booth ladies!

[Jenny]

Quote:"Booth reportedly expressed Union sentiments while in Montgomery. John Ellsler, a theatrical manager and later a business partner of Booth, wrote: “Wilkes was leading man in the stock company at Montgomery and his sympathy for, and utterances on behalf of the Union were so unguarded in their expression that his life was in jeopardy, and it became necessary for the manager of the theatre to resort to strategy and spirit Wilkes Booth out of the city to save his life. This I had from the lips of the manager [Matthew Canning] himself."

That explains a lot!! Anyone know what Booth was doing with the "pro-Union" stance in Montgomery? That doesn't sound like Booth...