 According to his sister Asia, Booth confided to her that he also used his position to smuggle the anti-malarial drug quinine, which was crucial to the lives of residents of the Gulf coast, to the South during his travels there, since it was in short supply due to the Northern blockade.Booth was pro-Confederate, but his family was divided, like many Marylanders.He was outspoken in his love of the South, and equally outspoken in his hatred of Lincoln.