Abstract
Kate Scott—Civil War nurse, newspaper editor, author, social reformer—lived an amazing life during some of the most stirring decades in American history. But for a number of years a perplexing question remained unanswered about this accomplished woman: Did she secretly bear a child of President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth?
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