For an hour-by-hour description of April 15, 1865, see the excellent A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours, by W. Emerson Reck; The Day Lincoln Was
Shot, by Jim Bishop; Lincoln’s Last Hours, by Charles Augustus Leale; and Abraham Lincoln, by Carl Sandburg.
Of great interest are titles that offer conflicting viewpoints of the assassination, the motivations, and the people involved. Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of researching the Lincoln assassination was poring over the many very good books dedicated to this topic and the shock of discovering that many disagree completely with one another. Dark Union, by Leonard Guttridge and Ray Neff, and Spies, Traitors, and Moles, by Peter Kross are two of the more controversial titles.
For information on Mary Surratt, see Assassin’s Accomplice, by Kate Clifford Larson.
Part Four: THE CHASE
The search for Lincoln’s killers and their subsequent trial was vividly portrayed in Kauffman’s American Brutus and James L. Swanson’s Manhunt. Potomac Diary, by Richtmyer Hubbell, provides fascinating insights into the mood in Washington. History of the United States Secret Service, by Lafayette Baker, is a rather verbose and self-aggrandizing account of Baker’s exploits. Also of note: Beware the People Weeping, by Thomas Reed Turner; Lincoln Legends, by Edward Steers; Right or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth, by John Wilkes Booth; The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, by Samuel A. Mudd; and Lincoln’s Assassins, by Roy Z. Chamlee
The arguments of Special Judge Advocate John A. Bingham can be found in Trial of the Conspirators for the Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, by John Armor Bingham. Testimony can be found at http://www.surratt.org/documents/Bplact02.pdf*.
INDEX
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Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
abolition movement
Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp (play)
Alaska
Alexander the Great
Amelia Court House
Anderson, Richard “Fighting Dick,”
Anderson, Robert
Antietam
Appomattox Court House, Lee’s
surrender at
Appomattox River
Army of Northern Virginia
last days of war
surrender of
Arnold, Isaac
Arnold, Samuel
trial and sentence of
Arsenal Penitentiary
Arthur, Chester
Ashmun, George
assassination, human history of
assassination conspiracy
against Johnson
against Lincoln
against Seward
Booth approaches state box
Booth arrives at Ford’s Theatre
Booth escapes
death of Lincoln
escape route
hanging of co-conspirators
hideout in Maryland
imprisonment of co-conspirators
Lincoln shot
Lincoln’s last hours after shooting
newspapers on
planning of
search for conspirators
Stanton and
trial and sentencing of co-conspirators
see also specific conspirators
Atzerodt, George
arrest of
escape of
failure to assassinate Johnson
hanging of
role in assassination plot
trial of
Baker, Lafayette C.
Booth investigation
death of
as double agent
life after Booth’s death
Baker, Luther
Baltimore
Baltimore Plot
Baptist Alley
Barnes, Joseph
Bell, William
Belle Plain, Virginia
Benning’s Bridge
Bible
black flag warfare
Black Hawk War
blacks
suffrage
as Union soldiers
see also slavery
Black Thursday
Booth, Edwin
Booth, John Wilkes
acting career
approaches state box
arrives at Ford’s Theatre
autopsy and photographs of
broken leg of
burial of
capture of
celebrity of
childhood of
crosses Potomac River
death of
diary of
end of war and
engagement to Lucy Hale
escape of
guns of
hatred for Lincoln
horse of
infamy
kidnap plot
leap onstage after shooting
Lincoln shot by
at Lincoln’s last speech
at Lincoln’s second inauguration
a martyr in the Confederate South
in Maryland swamps
personality of
physical appearance
plans assassination of Lincoln
reward poster for
search for
Stanton connection
views on slavery
Washington residence
as womanizer
Booth, Junius Brutus
Booth, Mary Ann Holmes
Boston
Bowie knife
Brockenbrough, John
Bryantown, Maryland
Buckingham, John
Bull Run
Bunker, George W.
Burns, Francis
Burroughs, Joseph
Caesar, Julius
Canada
Capitol Building
construction
Chandler, Theodore
Chandler, William
Chase, Salmon P.
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
City Point, Virginia
Civil War
Antietam
casualties
destruction of Richmond
end of
Five Forks
High Bridge
last days of
Lee’s retreat
Lee’s surrender
Petersburg
Sayler’s Creek
Civil War Times
Clark, William
Cobb, Silas T.
Cody, Buffalo Bill
Coggeshall, Willliam
Colburn’s United Service Magazine
Colfax, Schuyler
Confederacy Black Thursday
Confederate army
desertions
destruction of Richmond
food shortages
High Bridge
last days of war
at Petersburg
retreat from Petersburg
Sayler’s Creek
surrender of
Confederate Secret Service. See also specific members
Confederate White House
Conger, Everton
conspiracy against Lincoln. See assassination conspiracy; kidnap plot
Constitution, U.S.
Corbett, Boston
Booth killed by
Corry, John
Crane, Charles H.
Crockett, Davy
Crook, William
life after Lincoln’s death
Custer, George Armstrong
Battle of Little Bighorn
Danville, march to
Davis, Jefferson
Dearing, James
Deery’s tavern
Deringer pistol
Devin, Thomas
“Dixie,”
Dry Tortugas
Eckert, Thomas T.
Eglon, king of Moab
Egypt
Emancipation Proclamation
Ewell, Richard
Farmville, Virginia
Ferguson, Jim
Fillmore, Millard
Five Forks, Battle of
flag, American
thirty-six-star
Fletcher, John
Forbes, Charles
Ford, James
Ford, John
Ford’s Theatre
Booth approaches state box
Booth arrives at
Booth leaps onstage after shooting
as Booth’s mailing address
1862 fire
facilities
Lincoln at
Lincoln removed from
Lincoln shot in
Our American Cousin
post-assassination
state box
Fort Jefferson
Fort Sumter
Fredericksburg
Garfield, James
Garrett, John
Garrett, Richard
Garrett farm
Booth captured at
Georgetown Aqueduct
Gettysburg
Gifford, James J.
gold
Gordon, John B.
Grand Illumination
Grant, Julia
Mary Lincoln disliked by
Grant, Ulysses S.
death of
declines invitation to Ford’s Theatre
last days of war
leadership style
Lee’s surrender and
Lincoln and
marriage of
Meade and
memoirs of
at Petersburg
physical appearance of
pincer movement
in postwar Washington, D.C.
as president
Great Britain
Greenback Saloon
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore
Griffiths, Jabes
Grover’s Theatre
guerrilla warfare
guns
habeas corpus, writ of
Hale, John Parker
Hale, Lucy Lambert
engagement to Booth
Hamlin, Hannibal
Hancock, Winfield Scott
hanging of co-conspirators
Hansell, Emerick
Harper’s Weekly, re-creation of
Harlan, James
Harris, Clara
Harrison, Benjamin
Harvard University
Hawk, Harry
Hay, John
Herndon House hotel
Herold, David
arrest of
capture of
escape of
hanging of
role in assassination plot
search for
trial of
High Bridge, battle for
Hill, A. P.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
horses
getaway
Illinois
Lincoln’s funeral train to
Indians
Jackson, Andrew
assassination attempt against
Jackson, Stonewall
Jefferson, Thomas
J. J. Chaffey Company
John S. Ide
Johnson, Andrew
assassination plot against
death of
impeachment hearings
inaugural speech
as president
Reconstruction policies
as vice president
Johnston, Joe
Jones, Thomas
role in Booth’s escape
Juniper (gunboat)
Keene, Laura
death of
Lincoln’s last hours and
Keim, W. R.
Kentucky
Key, Francis Scott
Key, Philip Barton
kidnap plot
abandoned by Booth
see also assassination conspiracy
King, Albert
King, Prescott
Kirkwood House hotel
Knights of the Golden Circle
Lamon, Ward Hill
Lawrence, Richard
Leale, Charles
Lee, Custis
Lee, Fitzhugh
Lee, Robert E.
death of
last days of war
pardon of
at Petersburg
retreat from Petersburg
surrender at Appomattox
Lincoln, Abraham assassination of. See assassination conspiracy
autopsy on
childhood of
Civil War and
death of
deathbed of
death threats and premonitions
end of war and
at Ford’s Theatre
funeral of
Gettysburg Address
Grant and
last hours after shooting
last known photograph of
last speech of
mail of
marriage of
medical care of
physical appearance
religious views
removed from Ford’s Theatre
in Richmond
second inaugural
second term
security measures for
shot by Booth
Stanton and
telegrams and
Lincoln, Edward
Lincoln, Mary Todd
death of
at Ford’s Theatre
life after Lincoln’s death
Lincoln’s last hours after shooting
Lincoln’s funeral and
marriage of
mental instability of
pension of
physical appearance
Lincoln, Robert Todd
death of
death of his father
life after his father’s death
Lincoln, Tad
Lincoln, Willie
Lincoln Conspiracy, The (movie)
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Little Bighorn, Battle of
Long Bridge
Longstreet, James “Pete,”
death of
Lovett, Alexander
Maddox, Jim
Malvern, USS
Manassas
Marshall, Charles
Maryland
as hideout for conspirators
swamps
Mason-Dixon Line
Matthews, John
McKinley, William
McLean, Wilmer
Meade, George
Metropolitan Police
Metz, Lucinda
Mexican War
Mexico
Military Telegraph Corps
Montauk, USS
co-conspirators imprisoned on
Montreal
Mudd, Samuel
arrest of
role in Booth’s escape
trial and sentence of
Mudd, Sarah
Nanjemoy, Maryland
National Detective Police
National Hotel
National Intelligencer
Booth’s letter to
Navy Yard Bridge
Naylor’s stable
Neff, Ray
Newport, Rhode Island
newspapers
on assassination and search
re-creation of Harper’s Weekly
on trial of co-conspirators
New York
Nicolay, John
North Carolina
O’Laughlen, Mike
trial and sentence of
Old Capital Prison
Old Clubhouse
Our American Cousin (play)
cast after shooting
playbill
rehearsals
Palestine
Papal Zouaves
Parke, John G.
Parker, John
Pennsylvania House hotel
Petersburg, Virginia
>
siege at
Petersen, William
Petersen house
Lincoln in
Philadelphia
Philip II of Macedon
Pickett, George
Pinkerton agents
playbill, Our American Cousin
Point Lookout
Pollack, Wally
Porter, Horace
Port Royal
Port Tobacco
posters, reward
Potomac River
Booth crosses
Powell, Lewis
arrest of
attack on Seward family
escape of
hanging of
role in assassination plot
trial of
prisoners of war
prostitution
Pumphrey, James
stable of
Randolph, Robert
Rappahannock River
Rathbone, Henry Reed
Read, Theodore
Reconstruction
religion
reunification
Revolutionary War
reward posters
Rhode Island
Rice’s Station
Richmond, Virginia
destruction of
fall of
Ritterspaugh, Jake
River Queen (steamboat)
Robinson, George
Rollins, Edward H.
Rosser, Thomas Lafayette
Rozier, Margaret
Safford, Henry S.
Sample, Bill
Sayler’s Creek, battle of
secessionist movement
Sessford, John
Seward, August
Seward, Fanny
Seward, Frederic
Seward, William H.
assassination plot against
attack on
death of
house of
life after attack
Shakespeare, William
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Sheridan, Phil
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Sioux Indians
slavery
Booth’s views on
freedom
runaway slaves
Soldiers’ Home
Soles, Jacob
South Carolina
Spain
Spangler, Ned
trial and sentence of
Spencer rifles
spies
Confederate
Union
Springfield, Illinois
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