John Wilkes Booth: Confederate Spy In The Civil War

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Booth Essay By Lydia Hartz

“Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment.” The words of John Wilkes Booth days after the assassination President Lincoln. Booth had been a Confederate spy in the war. He thought slavery was fine, so there are definitely rational logics for wanting to murder Lincoln.

First, John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln because the south lost. On biography.com, it states ‘In 1885, he [Booth] showed his support for slavery by joining a Virginia militia.” In his last diary entry, it also says, “…As well as a Confederate synthesizer during the Civil War.” This tells you that John Wilkes Booth had a southern mind. Booth was obviously angry at losing. For example,

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