Yes he did.
Booth knew the war was over.
rustbucket, nolu chan, and I have all provided relelvent information which shows that the war was not yet over. Yes he did is not adequate refutation of fact.
You guy's defense of this murderer speaks volumes about your character.
Correcting a false statement is not defense of a murderer. Your hyperbole is getting worse.
From the proclamation:
And whereas, the President of the United States, by further proclamation issued on the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, did promulgate and declare, that there no longer existed any armed resistance of misguided citizens, or others, to the authority of the United States in any, or in all the States before mentioned, excepting only the State of Texas, and did further promulgate and declare that the laws could be sustained and enforced in the several States before mentioned, except Texas, by the proper civil authorities, State, or Federal, and that the people of the said States, except Texas, are well and loyally disposed, and have conformed or will conform in their legislation to the condition of affairs growing out of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, prohibiting slavery within the limits and jurisdiction of the United States;...And whereas, subsequently to the said second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, the insurrection in the State of Texas has been completely and everywhere suppressed and ended, and the authority of the United States has been successfully and completely established in the said State of Texas, and now remains therein unresisted and undisputed, and such of the proper United States officers as have been duly commissioned within the limits of the said State, are now in undisturbed exercise of their official functions;
...Now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare that the insurrection which heretofore existed in the State of Texas is at an end, and is to be henceforth so regarded in that State, as in the other States before named, in which the said insurrection was proclaimed to be at an end, by the aforesaid proclamation of the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
...Done at the city of Washington this twentieth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-first.
[signed ANDREW JOHNSON]
Again your defense of a despicable murderer shows your character. Booth knew the war was over whether there were still stragglers or not. Assassins will burn in hell.
Correcting a false statement is not defense of a murderer. Your hyperbole is getting worse.
You are defending a despicable murderer. I guess that isn't much different than defending despicable slaveholder-secessionists.