Similarly, how did Robert E Lee react to Lincoln's assassination?

According to Southerner Belle Boyd, Confederate General Robert E. Lee was one such antagonist who appeared to mourn the assassinated president: "When our noble, old chieftain General Lee heard of the assassination, he covered his face, and refused to listen to the details of the murder."

Secondly, who was John Wilkes Booth married to? Izola Martha Mills m. 1859–1865

Subsequently, one may also ask, what was John Wilkes Booth's relationship with Abraham Lincoln?

John Wilkes Booth was a vigorous supporter of the Southern cause. He was outspoken in his advocacy of slavery and his hatred of U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln. He was a volunteer in the Richmond militia that hanged the abolitionist John Brown after Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid in 1859.

Why did Lincoln's assassination hurt the South?

The assassination of President Lincoln was just one part of a larger plot to decapitate the federal government of the U.S. after the Civil War. As a result, new state governments formed across the South and enacted “black codes.†These restrictive measures were designed to repress the recently freed slave population.