David Rankin Barbee collected information about the shooting of Jesse Wharton. His papers are now housed in the Georgetown University Library. (The material about Wharton is in box 5, folder 257, 'Wharton shooting'.) Joy Firtell and her daughter were kind enough to send pictures of the documents to me. I list them below, with references (in the right-hand column) to my transcriptions of the information I have copies of. I will try to get copies of the rest of the sources Barbee located.
| typescript, letter, James W Foster, Maryland Historical Society, to David Rankin Barbee, 5 September 1946 | |
| typescript, transcription of 'Shooting of Jesse B Wharton', Hagerstown Herald of Freedom and Torch Light 30 April 1862 | [I do not have a copy of this] |
| typescript, letter, David Rankin Barbee to James W Foster, Maryland Historical Society, 9 September 1946 [response to Foster's letter of 5 September 1946] | |
| typescript, transcriptions of two articles from the New York Herald from 22 April 1862 ('A rebel prisoner shot') and 23 April 1862 (no title; begins 'The parties implicated') | [I do not have copies of these articles] |
| typescript, letter, John B Heffernan, Navy Department Office of Naval Records and Library, to David Rankin Barbee, 18 September 1946 [re forwarding Barbee's letter to the War Department Adjutant General] | |
| typescript, transcription of an article by Mansfield T Walworth, 'Explanation of the Confederate Shot at Washington', The Columbus Crisis 11 June 1862 | see 'Explanation of the Confederate shot at Washington City' |
| typescript, transcription of an article about Wharton, New York Herald 28 March 1862 | [I do not have a copy of this article] |
| typescript, letter, from James W Foster, Maryland Historical Society, to David Rankin Barbee, 25 September 1946 [re Hagerstown Herald 22 December 1861] | |
| three manuscript pages, transcription of two articles from the National Intelligencer: (1) 'Shocking transaction', National Intelligencer 23 April 1862, (2) 'The homicide at the Old Capitol Prison', National Intelligencer 29 April 1862 | see 'Shocking transaction' and 'The homicide at the Old Capitol Prison' |
| typescript, transcription of (1) a letter from the E D Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General, reporting a statement of Wharton's accounts with various offices when he resigned, and (2) Wharton's resignation with endorsements, and (3) a statement of charges pending against him | [I do not have copies of these documents, but have requested a copy from the National Archives, on 12 July 2014] |
| typescript, transcription of a letter from Gordon Chapin, 1st Lieutenant and AAG, Camp Floyd, UT, 8 August 1859, to Lt Col P Morrison, Com. Camp Floyd, about Wharton's behavior | [I do not have a copy of this document] |
| typescript, letter from Edward F Witsell, Adjutant General, to David R Barbee, 8 November 1946 (granting permission to view and quote from documents about Wharton) | |
| typescript, letter from David R Barbee to the Adjutant General, 27 September 1946 (requesting permission) | |
| typescript, letter from Ida M Cohen, New York State Library, to David Rankin Barbee (citing articles in the Argus & Atlas from 22 April 1862 and 25 April 1862) | |
| typescript, transcription of 'Explanation of the Confederate shot at Washington City', Columbus Crisis, 11 June 1862 | see 'Explanation of the Confederate shot at Washington City' |
| typescript, transcription of 'Shocking transaction', Atlas & Argus, 25 April 1862 | [I do not have a copy of this article] |
| typescript, letter from David Rankin Barbee to Captain Dudley W Knox, Historian, Navy Department (requesting information about Wharton's service in the Navy) | |
| manuscript, with brief information about William R Milligan and Ambrose Baker | |
| manuscript, transcription of letter from P H Watson Asst Sec War to Hon Charles B Calvert, 23 April 1862, from OR | see 'Letter about the shooting of Jesse Wharton' |
| typescript, letter from David Rankin Barbee to Maryland Historical Society, 29 August 1856 (requesting information about Wharton) | |
| typescript, transcription of references to Wharton's arrest in OR series II volume II pp.237, 271, and 278 | see my transcriptions |
| manuscript, transcription of article from the Baltimore American 24 Dec 1861 (and reference to its republication in the Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Clipper of the same date) | see 'Military affairs at Williamsport' |
| manuscript, transcription of reference to Wharton in Rose O'N Greenhow's My imprisonment at Washington | see my transcription |
| two typescript pages, with transcriptions of five articles: (1) 'Shooting of a prisoner', National Republican 22 April 1862; (2) 'The homicide of Wharton', National Republican 25 April 1862; (3) 'Prisoner shot at the Old Capitol', Washington Star, 21 April 1865; (4) Baltimore Clipper 22 April 1862; (5) Baltimore Clipper 23 April 1862 | [I do not have copies of any of these articles] |
| typescript, transcriptions of two articles: (1) Baltimore Sun 22 April 1862, and (2) Baltimore Sun 23 April 1862 | [I do not have copies of these articles] |
| typescript, numbered -8-, (apparently a page of an article by Barbee about the shooting) | [this claims that when Booth was planning to kidnap Lincoln, in 1864, he talked about Wharton's shooting to the stage driver] |