Bloody Crimes: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Chase for Jefferson Davis

by James L. Swanson

  Gerry, Margarita Spalding, ed., Through Five Administrations: Reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, Body-Guard to President Lincoln (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910).

  Gildersleeve, Basil L., The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1915).

  Glatthaar, Joseph T., General Lee’s Army: From Victory to Collapse (New York: Free Press, 2008).

  Gobright, Lawrence A., An Account of Lincoln’s Assassination (New York: n.p. 1869).

  ______. Recollections of Men and Things at Washington During Half a Century (Philadelphia: n.p. 1869).

  Good, Timothy S., We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995).

  Goodrich, Thomas, The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005).

  Gorham, George C., Life and Public Services of Edwin M. Stanton, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899).

  Gray, Clayton, Conspiracy in Canada (Montreal: L’Atelier Press, 1957).

  Green, James A., William Henry Harrison: His Life and Times (Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, 1941).

  Grieve, Victoria, Ford’s Theatre and the Lincoln Assassination (Alexandria, VA: Parks & History Association, 2001).

  Grimsley, Mark, and Brooks D. Simpson, The Collapse of the Confederacy (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001).

  Gurley, Phineas Densmore, Faith in God: Dr. Gurley’s Sermon at the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln (Philadelphia: privately printed, 1940).

  ______. The Voice of the Rod: A Sermon Preached on Thursday, June 1, 1865, in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C., by the Rev. P. D. Gurley, D.D., Pastor of the Church (Washington, D.C.: William Ballantyne Bookseller, 1865).

  Haco, Dion, J. Wilkes Booth, the Assassinator of President Lincoln (New York: T. R. Dawley, 1865).

  Haley, William D., ed., Philp’s Washington Described (New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1861).

  Hall, Charles H., A Mournful Easter: A Discourse Delivered in the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.C., on Easter Day, April 19 [sic], 1865, by the Rector, Rev. Charles H. Hall, D.D., Being the Second Day After the Assassination of the President of the United States, and a Similar Attempt upon the Secretary of State, on the Night of Good Friday (Washington, D.C.: Gideon & Pearson, 1865).

  Hall, James O., and Michael Maione, To Make a Fortune. John Wilkes Booth: Following the Money Trail (Clinton, MD: Surrat Society, 2003).

  Hanchett, William, The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983).

  Hanna, A. J., Flight into Oblivion (Richmond, VA: Johnson Publishing Co., 1938).

  Harnden, Henry, The Capture of Jefferson Davis: A Narrative of the Past Taken by Wisconsin Troops (Madison, WI: Tracy, Gibbs & Co., 1898).

  Harwell, Richard Barksdale, The Confederate Hundred: A Bibliographic Selection of Confederate Books (Urbana, IL: Beta Phi Mu, 1964).

  ______. In Tall Cotton: The 200 Most Important Books for the Reader, Researcher and Collector (Austin, TX: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1978).

  Harrell, Carolyn L., When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln: Southern Reaction to the Assassination (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997).

  Harris, Neil, Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum (Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1973).

  Harris, William C., Lincoln’s Last Months (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2004).

  Harrison, Fairfax, ed., The Harrisons of Skimino (n.p.: privately printed, 1910).

  Harrison, Mrs. Burton, Recollections Grave and Gay (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911).

  Hattaway, Herman, and Archer Jones, How the North Won (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983).

  Hattaway, Herman, and Richard E. Beringer, Jefferson Davis, Confederate President (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002).

  Helm, Katherine, The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1928).

  Helwig, Rev. J. B., The Assassination of President Lincoln: What Was the Religious Faith of Those Engaged in the Conspiracy That Resulted in the Assassination of President Lincoln at Washington, D.C., on Friday Evening, April 14, 1865 (Springfield, OH: A. D. Hosterman & Co., n.d.).

  Henriques, Peter R., The Death of George Washington: He Died as He Lived (Mount Vernon, VA: Mount Vernon Ladies Association, 2000).

  Hill, Tucker, Victory in Defeat: Jefferson Davis and the Lost Cause (Richmond, VA: Museum of the Confederacy, 1986).

  Holland, J. G., The Life of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, MA: Gurdon Bill, 1866).

  Holzer, Harold, Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark E. Neely Jr., The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print (New York: Scribner’s, 1984).

  Huntington, Richard, and Peter Metcalf, Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual (Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979).

  Hylton, J. Dunbar, The Præsidicide: A Poem (Philadelphia: Meichel & Plumly, 1868).

  In Memoriam (New York: Trent, Filmer & Co., 1865).

  Isacsson, Alfred, The Travels, Arrest and Trial of John H. Surratt (Middletown, NY: Vestigium Press, 2003).

  Janney, Caroline E., Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies’ Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).

  Johnson, Andrew, Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson (Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., 1868).

  Johnson, Byron Berkeley, Abraham Lincoln and Boston Corbett, with Personal Recollections of Each: John Wilkes Booth and Jefferson Davis, a True Story of Their Capture (Boston: Lincoln & Smith Press, 1914).

  Johnson, Clint, Pursuit: The Chase, Capture, Persecution & Surprising Release of Confederate President Jefferson Davis (New York: Citadel Press, 2008).

  Johnston, Joseph E., Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1874.

  Jones, J. William, The Davis Memorial Volume; or our Dead President, Jefferson Davis, and the World’s Tribute to His Memory (Richmond, VA: B. F. Johnson & Co., 1890).

  Jones, Katharine M., ed., Ladies of Richmond, Confederate Capital (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1962).

  Jones, Thomas A., J. Wilkes Booth: An Account of His Sojourn in Southern Maryland After the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, His Passage Across the Potomac, and His Death in Virginia (Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1893).

  Judson, Edward Zane Carroll, The Parricides; or, the Doom of the Assassins, the Authors of the Nation’s Loss, by Ned Buntline (New York: Hilton & Co., 1865).

  Kammen, Michael, Digging Up the Dead: A History of Notable American Reburials (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).

  ______. Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991).

  Kauffman, Michael, American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies (New York: Random House, 2004).

  Keckley, Elizabeth, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1868).

  Kendall, John S., The Golden Age of New Orleans Theater (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1952).

  Kimmel, Stanley, The Mad Booths of Maryland (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940).

  ______. Mr. Davis’s Richmond (New York: Coward-McCann, 1958).

  ______. Mr. Lincoln’s Washington (New York: Bramhall House, 1957).

  King, Willard, Lincoln’s Manager David Davis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960).

  Kunhardt, Dorothy Meserve, and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., Twenty Days (New York: Harper & Row, 1965).

  Laderman, Gary, The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996).

  Lamon, Dorothy, ed., Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865, by Ward Hill Lamon (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1895).

  Lamon, Ward Hill, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865, ed. Dorothy Lamon Teillard (Washington, D.C.: published by the editor, 1911).

>   Lankford, Nelson, Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital (New York: Viking, 2002).

  Lattimer, Dr. John K., Kennedy and Lincoln: Medical and Ballistic Comparisons of Their Assassinations (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980).

  Laughlin, Clara E., The Death of Lincoln: The Story of Booth’s Plot, His Deed and the Penalty (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1909).

  Leale, Charles, Lincoln’s Last Hours (New York: privately printed, 1909).

  Lee, Richard M., Mr. Lincoln’s City (McLean, VA: EPM Publications, 1981).

  Leech, Margeret, Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941).

  Leonard, Elizabeth D., Lincoln’s Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion After the Civil War (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004).

  Lewis, Lloyd, Myths After Lincoln (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1920).

  The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred President (New York: Bruce & Huntington, 1865).

  Loux, Arthur F., John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day (privately printed, 1989).

  Lowenfels, Walter, ed., Walt Whitman’s Civil War (New York: Knopf, 1960).

  Lubbock, Francis Richard. Six Decades in Texas or Memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock, Governor of Texas in War-Time 1861-63, ed. C. W. Raines (Austin, TX: Ben C. Jones & Co., 1900).

  Mahoney, Ella V., Sketches of Tudor Hall and the Booth Family (Bel Air, MD: privately printed, 1925).

  Mallon, Thomas, Henry and Clara (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1994).

  Manarin, Louis H., ed., Richmond at War: The Minutes of the City Council 1861-1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966).

  ______. Richmond on the James (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2001).

  Marvel, William, A Place Called Appomattox (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).

  Maynard, Nettie Colburn, Was Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? Or, Curious Revelations from the Life of a Trance Medium (Philadelphia: Rufus C. Hartranft, 1891).

  McClure, Stanley W., Ford’s Theatre and the House Where Lincoln Died (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1969).

  ______. The Lincoln Museum and the House Where Lincoln Died (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1949).

  McCreary, Donna D., Fashionable First Lady: The Victorian Wardrobe of Mary Lincoln. (n.p.: Lincoln Presentations, 2007).

  McCulloch, Hugh, Men and Measures of Half a Century (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888).

  McElroy, Robert, Jefferson Davis, the Unreal and the Real, 2 vols. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937).

  McPherson, James M., “American Victory, American Defeat,” Why the Confederacy Lost, ed., Gabor S. Boritt (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 15-42.

  ______. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).

  ______. Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).

  McPherson, James M., and William J. Cooper Jr., eds., Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998).

  Meredith, Roy, Mr. Lincoln’s Contemporaries: An Album of Portraits by Mathew Brady (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951).

  Miers, Earl Schenk, ed., When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma Le Conte (New York: Oxford University Press, 1957).

  Miller, Ernest C., John Wilkes Booth: Oilman (New York: Exposition Press, 1947).

  Mills, Cynthia, and Pamela H. Simpson, eds., Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003).

  Mitchell, Mary H., Hollywood Cemetery: The History of a Southern Shrine (Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1985).

  Mogelever, Jacob, Death to Traitors: The Story of General Lafayette C. Baker, Lincoln’s Forgotten Secret Service Chief (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1960).

  Monaghan, Jay, Lincoln Bibliography, 1839-1939, 2 vols. (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1943-45).

  Morris, B. F., comp., Memorial Record of the Nation’s Tribute to Abraham Lincoln (Washington, D.C.: W. H. & O. H. Morrison, 1865).

  Morris, Clara, Life On Stage: My Personal Experiences and Recollections (New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901).

  Mudd, Nettie, ed., The Life of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, Containing His Letters from Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas Island, Where He Was Imprisoned Four Years for Alleged Complicity in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1906).

  Neely, Mark E., Jr., The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982).

  ______. “Abraham Lincoln vs. Jefferson Davis: Comparing Presidential Leadership in the Civil War,” Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand, eds., James M. McPherson and William J. Cooper Jr. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998), 96-111.

  ______. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).

  Neely, Mark E., Jr., Harold Holzer, and Gabor S. Boritt, The Confederate Image: Prints of the Lost Cause (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987).

  Nevins, Allan, ed., Diary of the Civil War 1860-1865: George Templeton Strong (New York: Macmillan, 1962).

  Nevins, Allan, James I. Robertson Jr., and Bell I. Wiley, Civil War Books: A Critical Bibliography, 2 vols. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967).

  Newman, Ralph G., “In This Sad World of Ours, Sorrow Comes to All”: A Timetable for the Lincoln Funeral Train (Springfield: Civil War Centennial Commission of Illinois, 1965).

  ______, ed., Lincoln for the Ages (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960).

  Nicholson, John Page, Catalogue of Library of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel John Page Nicholson…Relating to the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866 (Philadelphia: privately printed, 1914).

  Nicolay, John G., A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Century Co., 1904).

  Nicolay, John G., and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln, 10 vols. (New York: Century Co., 1890).

  Niven, John, Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973).

  ______. John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988).

  ______. Salmon P. Chase: A Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).

  Oates, Stephen B., With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Harper & Row, 1977).

  Oldroyd, Osborn H., The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Washington, D.C.: Osborn H. Oldroyd, 1901).

  ______. The Oldroyd Lincoln Memorial Collection: Located in the House in Which Lincoln Died (Washington, D.C.: privately printed by Judd and Detweiler, 1903).

  Olszewski, George J., Restoration of Ford’s Theatre (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1963).

  Ostendorf, Lloyd, Lincoln’s Photographs: A Complete Album (Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998).

  Osterweis, Rollin G., The Myth of the Lost Cause 1865-1900 (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1973).

  ______. Romanticism and Nationalism in the Old South (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1949).

  Ott, Victoria E., Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age During the Civil War (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008).

  Otto, John Solomon, Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994).

  Ownsbey, Betty J., Alias “Paine”: Lewis Thornton Powell, the Mystery Man of the Lincoln Conspiracy (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993).

  Paludan, Phillip Shaw, The Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994).

  Parker, William Harwar, Recollections of a Naval Officer 1841-1865, intro and notes by Craig L. Symonds (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883; repr. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1985).

  Parrish, T. Michael, and Robert M. Willingham Jr., Confederate Imprints: A Bibliography of Southern Publications From Secession to Surrender
(Austin, TX: Jenkins Publishing Co., n.d.).

  Parsons, John E., Henry Deringer’s Pocket Pistol (New York: William Morrow, 1952).

  Patrick, Rembert W., The Fall of Richmond (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960).

  Petersen, Merrill D., Lincoln in American Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).

  Peterson, T. B., The Trial of the Alleged Assassins and Conspirators at Washington City, D.C., in May and June, 1865 (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1865).

  Phillips, Jason, Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007).

  Pinsker, Matthew, Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

  Pitman, Benn, The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators (Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1865).

  Plowden, David, Lincoln and His America (New York: Viking Press, 1970).

  Plummer, Mark A., Lincoln’s Rail-Splitter: Governor Richard J. Oglesby (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001).

  Poetical Tributes to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1865).

  Poore, Ben Perley, The Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of the President, 3 vols. (Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company, 1865-1866).

  ______. Perley’s Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis, 2 vols. Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1886).

  Porcher, Francis Peyre, Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural (Charleston, SC: Steam Power Press of Evans & Cogswell, 1863).

  Power, John Carroll, Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Public Services and Great Funeral Cortege (Springfield, IL: Edwin W. Wilson, 1875).

  ______. History of an Attempt to Steal the Body of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, 1890).

  Pratt, Harry E., The Personal Finances of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1943).

  Pryor, Elizabeth Brown, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters (New York: Viking, 2007).

  Putnam, Sallie Brock, Richmond During the War (New York: G. W. Carleton, 1867).

  Randall, Ruth Painter, Lincoln’s Sons (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1955).