contained in volumes 12 and 13, cited as [volume Stat. page].
Commission records are in Record Group 153
Benjamin Gwynn Harris trial, case MM1957
Lewis F. Chubb court-martial, case MM2513
Boston Corbett court-martial, case OO1128
Conspiracy trial, case MM2251
John Surratt’s first indictment, DC Criminal Court, case no. 4371
second indictment, case no. 5920
third indictment, case no. 6594
Henry B. Ste. Marie v. U.S., C. of C. Dec. T., 1873, 415
Ste. Marie’s appeal:
Shuey, executor, v. U.S., 92 U.S. 73
Joseph H. Bradley lawsuits
Ex Parte Bradley, 74 U.S. 364
Bradley v. Fisher, 80 U.S. 335
Reward money suit:
Baker v. Doherty, D.C. Equity 790
Dr. Mudd case:
Ex Parte Mudd, 17 F. Cas. 954 (S. D. Fla., 1868, no. 9,899)
Dr. Mudd appeal:
Army Board for the Correction of Military Records, docket no. AC91-05511
Mudd family lawsuit:
Richard D. Mudd v. Togo West, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, case
97-2946
Petition to exhume the remains in Green Mount Cemetery:
Virginia Eleanor Humbrecht Kline and Lois Rathbun v. Green Mount Cemetery, Circuit
Court of Baltimore City, 94297044/CE187741
Exhumation appeal:
Maryland Court of Special Appeals, no. 1531, 110 Md. App. 383 (1996)
CONGRESSIONAL REPORTS
Thirty-ninth Congress, First Session
House Executive Document No. 63. Message from the President of the United States.
Distribution of Rewards for Arrest of Assassins of President Lincoln.
House Executive Document No. 86. Awards for the Capture of Booth and Others. Letter
from the Secretary of War, in Answer to a Resolution of the House of the 10th Instant,
Calling for the Findings of the Commission for the Capture of John Wilkes Booth and
David E. Herold, April 19, 1866.
House Executive Document No. 90. Awards for the Capture of Booth and Others. Letter
from the Secretary of War, in Answer to a Resolution of the House of the 10th Instant,
Calling for the Findings of the Commission for the Capture of John Wilkes Booth and
David E. Herold, April 19, 1866.
House Report No. 99. Report Relating to Rewards for the Capture of Booth [Issued by Rep.
Giles Hotchkiss, July 24, 1866, to accompany H.R. 801.]
House Report No. 104. Report Relating to the Assassination of President Lincoln [George S.
Boutwell’s report on the possible complicity of Jefferson Davis and Andrew Johnson.
The minority report of Andrew J. Rogers is included.]
Thirty-ninth Congress, Second Session
House Executive Document No. 9. Message from the President of the United States,
Transmitting a Report of the Secretary of State Relating to the Discovery and Arrest of
John H. Surratt
House Executive Document No. 25. John H. Surratt. Message from the President of the
United States, Transmitting Further Copies of Papers in Answer to the Resolution of the
House of 3d ultimo, Relative to the Arrest of John H. Surratt
House Report No. 33. John H. Surratt [Report on the discovery and arrest of Surratt.]
Fortieth Congress, First Session
House Report No. 7. Impeachment Investigation: Testimony Taken Before the Judiciary
Committee of the House of Representatives in the Investigation of the Charges Against
Andrew Johnson
House Executive Document No. 36. H. B. Sainte-Marie; Letter from the Secretary of War ad
interim, Relative to a Claim of Sainte-Marie for Compensation for Information Furnished
in the Surratt Case
Fortieth Congress, Second Session
House Executive Document No. 68. Assassination of President Lincoln. Message from the
President of the United States, Transmitting a Report of George H. Sharpe Relative to the
Assassination of President Lincoln
House Executive Document No. 150. Trial of John H. Surratt. Message from the President of
the United States, in Answer to a Resolution of the House of 27th January, Relative to the
Trial of John H. Surratt
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
Library of Congress
Ray Stannard Baker Papers
Amy Gillette Bassett Papers
Junius Brutus Booth Family Papers
Crosby Noyes Boyd Papers
Benjamin F. Butler Papers
Cyrus Ballou Comstock Papers
Ewing Family Papers
George P. Fisher Papers
John T. Ford Collection
William Stump Forwood Papers
Benjamin B. French Papers
James A. Hardie Papers
Herndon-Weik Papers
Ethan Allen Hitchcock Papers
Joseph Holt Papers
Andrew Johnson Papers
August V. Kautz Papers
Laura Keene Papers
Robert Todd Lincoln Papers
Lincoln Obsequies Scrapbook
Letitia B. Martin Scrapbook
Phillip Phillips Papers
Edwin Stanton Papers
Alfred Whital Stern Collection
Philip Van Doren Stern Papers
Gideon Welles Papers
Historical Society of Washington, DC
Aloysius Mudd Theater Collection
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
Booth Family Scrapbook
Junius Booth, Jr., 1864 Diary
Owen Fawcett Scrapbook
John McCullough Papers
National Park Service, Ford’s Theatre, Washington, DC
J. B. Wright Scrapbook
Office of the Architect of the Capitol, Washington, DC
Ford’s Theatre Disaster Files
Office of the Historian of the U.S. Senate
Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
David Rankin Barbee Collection
Margaret K. Bearden Collection
Aaron H. Byington Papers
E. H. Swaim Collection
Maryland Province Archives, Jesuit Order
Martin Luther King Public Library, Washington, DC
Washingtoniana Collection, Lincoln Scrapbooks
Washington Star Collection
Marine Corps Historical Center, Navy Yard, Washington, DC
Naval Historical Center, Navy Yard, Washington, DC
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Thomas T. Eckert Diary
Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Joseph Holt Papers
Gideon Welles Collection
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE
Merl Kelce Library, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
Stanley Kimmel Papers
Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL
William E. Barton Papers
Charles Gunther Collection
Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL
Otto Eisenschiml Papers
Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, IL
John Wilkes Booth Collection
Henry Horner Collection
Robert Todd Lincoln Collection
Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN
A. G. Porter Papers
Lew Wallace Papers
Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Osborn H. Oldroyd Papers
Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
O. H. Bronson Collection
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Judge James Wills Bollinger Collection
Otto Eisenschiml Papers
Fogler Libra
ry, University of Maine, Orono, ME
Hannibal Hamlin Papers
Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD
George Alfred Townsend Papers
Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD
John T. Ford Papers
The Civil War Note-book of Washington Hands
William H. Marine Scrapbook
Alonzo J. May Papers
Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD
Asia Booth Clarke Letters
Surratt House Museum and Library, Clinton, MD
Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University, Boston, MA
Junius Booth, Jr., 1865 Diary
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
H. W. Bellows Letters
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Sophia Smith Collection / Clara Morris Papers
Oakland University Library, Rochester, MI
Frederick L. Black Papers
Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO
William K. Bixby Collection
Long Branch Historical Society, Long Branch, NJ
Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ
André de Coppet Collection
William Seymour Collection
Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, NY
Edwin Booth Scrapbook
Thomas Ewing, Jr., Papers
Theodore Roscoe Papers
New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
Clara Harris Letters
New York Public Library, New York, NY
George S. Bryan Papers
Jerome B. Howard Shorthand Collection
Edwina Booth Grossman Collection, Lincoln Center
Hampden-Booth Theater Library, The Players, New York, NY
Edwin Booth Papers
Rochester University, Rochester, NY
William H. Seward Papers
Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, NC
Kate Camenga Papers
Clement C. Clay Papers
Lyndall Collection
Eugene Marshall Papers
James Otis Moore Papers
Green Clay Smith Papers
Henry B. Whitney Diary
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Southern Historical Society Papers
Edwin Gray Lee Papers
Weedon-Whitehurst Papers
Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH
John A. Bingham Papers
Civil War Library and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
MOLLUS Scrapbooks
Grand Army of the Republic Museum, Philadelphia, PA
U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, PA
August V. Kautz Papers
Julian E. Raymond Collection
Drake Well Museum, Titusville, PA
Musselman Library, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
John F. Hartranft Papers
Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN
Theodore Roscoe Papers
Kefauver Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Owen Fawcett Papers
Harry A. Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
John Wilkes Booth Script for Richard III
Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
William Norris Papers
Richard H. Stuart Papers
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
Southern Baptist Historical Collection
Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA
Grinnan Family Papers
Philip Whitlock Reminiscences
McLennan Library, McGill University, Montreal
Joseph Nathanson Collection
Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa
St. Lawrence Hall Register
REFERENCE BOOKS
Benét, Stephen Vincent. A Treatise on Military Law and the Practice of Courts-Martial. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1864.
Biographical Directory of the American Congress. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1961.
Coppee, Henry. Field Manual of Courts-Martial. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1863.
DeHart, William C. Observations on Military Law and the Constitution and Practice of Courts-Martial. New York: D. Appleton, 1863.
Dyer, Frederick H. Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, Iowa: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908.
Hunt, Roger D., and Jack Brown. Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue. Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, 1990.
Loux, Arthur F. John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day. Limited edition. N. p.: privately printed, 1990.
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion. 128 vols. Washington: Government Printing Office. The entire series is available in an excellent CD-ROM version by the Guild Press of Indiana.
Pitman, Benn. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and Trial of the Conspirators. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach and Baldwin, 1865. Pitman himself called this “a great heap of rubbish,” and since it is paraphrased and heavily edited, this trial transcript is nearly worthless. However, it does contain portions of the transcript not available in the Poore version. The attorneys’ arguments are presented verbatim.
Poore, Ben: Perley. Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of the President and the Attempt to Overthrow the Government by the Assassination of Its Principal Officers. Boston: J. E. Tilton, 1865.
Pursuit and Arrest of John H. Surratt. Media, PA: Proofmark Publishing, 2000.
Ray, Isaac. A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1853.
Rhodehamel, John, and Louise Taper, eds. “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me”: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Stock, Leo F., ed. U.S. Ministers to the Papal States: Instructions and Despatches, 1848–1868. Washington: 1930.
Taylor, Wellford Dunaway, ed. Our American Cousin: The Play That Changed History. Washington: Beacham Publishing Company, 1990.
Trial of John H. Surratt in the Criminal Court for the District of Columbia. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867.
Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1964.
Wearmouth, Roberta J. Abstracts from the Port Tobacco Times and Charles County Advertiser. 4 vols. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1990–1996.
Wharton, Francis. Wharton’s American Criminal Law. Philadelphia: Kay & Brother, 1853.
Winthrop, William W., ed. Digest of Opinions of the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865.
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Bogorad, Alan B. “A Rhetorical Analysis of the Speaking of John A. Bingham with Emphasis on His Role in the Trial of the Lincoln Conspirators.” Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1963.
Busch, Walter E. “General, You Have Made the Mistake of Your Life.” Master’s thesis, California State University at Dominguez Hills, 2001.
Coder, William D. “A History of the Philadelphia Theatre, 1856 to 1878.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1936.
Fuller, Charles Franklin, Jr. “Kunkel and Company at the Marshall Theatre, Richmond, Virginia, 1856–1861.” Master’s thesis, Ohio University, 1968.
Hasin, Bernice R. “John A. Bingham and Due Process.” Master’s thesis, California State University at Long Beach, 1976.
Koerting, Gayla M. “The Trial of Henry Wirz and Nineteenth Century Military Law.” Ph.D. dissertation, Kent State University, 1995.
LaCasse, Donald E., Jr. “Edwin Booth: Theatre Manager.” Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 1979.
Mauldin, Michael L. “Edwin Booth and the Theatre of Redemption: An Exploration of the Effects of John Wilkes Booth’s Assassination of Abraham Lincoln on Edwin Booth’s Acting Style.” Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University
, 2000.
Mindich, David T. Z. “Building the Pyramid: A Cultural History of ‘Objectivity’ in American Journalism, 1832–1894.” Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1996.
Ray, Rebecca Lea. “Stage History of Tom Taylor’s ‘Our American Cousin.’ ” Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1985.
Sollers, John Ford. “The Theatrical Career of John T. Ford.” Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1962.
Steward, Charles J. “A Rhetorical Study of the Reaction of the Protestant Pulpit in the North to Lincoln’s Assassination.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, 1963.
Woodruff, Bruce Erwin. “Genial John McCullough: Actor and Manager.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska, 1984.
BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
Aldrich, Mrs. Thomas Bailey. Crowding Memories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920.
Amator Justitiae [John P. Brophy]. Trial of Mrs. Surratt; or, Contrasts of the Past and Present. Washington: n.p., 1865.
Arnold, Samuel B. Memoirs of a Lincoln Conspirator. Edited by Michael W. Kauffman. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1996.
Baird, Nancy Disher. Luke Pryor Blackburn: Physician, Governor, Reformer. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1979.
Baker, Jean H. Ambivalent Americans: The Know-Nothing Party in Maryland. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
———. The Politics of Continuity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.
Baker, Lafayette C. History of the United States Secret Service. Philadelphia: King and Baird, 1867.
Balsiger, David, and Charles E. Sellier, Jr. The Lincoln Conspiracy. Los Angeles: Schick-Sunn Classics Books, 1977.
Basler, Roy P., ed. The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln. 8 vols. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953.
Bates, David Homer. Lincoln in the Telegraph Office. New York: D. Appleton–Century, 1907.
Bates, Finis L. Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth. Memphis: Pilcher Printing Co., 1907.
Bingham, John A. Argument of John A. Bingham, Special Judge Advocate, in Reply to the Arguments of the Several Counsel. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865.
Brown, J. Willard. The Signal Corps, U.S.A., in the War of the Rebellion. Boston: U.S. Veteran Signal Corps Association, 1896.
Browning, Orville Hickman. Diary of Orville Hickman Browning. 2 vols. Edited by Theodore Calvin Pease and James G. Randall. Springfield: Illinois State Historical Society, 1925 and 1933.
Bryan, Vernanne. Laura Keene: A British Actress on the American Stage. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993.
Buckingham, J. E. Reminiscences and Souvenirs of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Washington: Press of Rufus H. Darby, 1894.
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