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

by James L. Swanson

  212 “Paroled men and stragglers seized my train” OR, 47, III, 819.

  215 “The body of this hearse” Coggeshall, Journeys, 144.

  215 “were tastefully arranged evergreens” Townsend, Anecdotes, 224-25.

  216 “No bearers, except the veteran guard” Townsend, Anecdotes, 224.

  218 “A driving rain and the darkness of the evening” Townsend, Anecdotes, 225.

  219 “If you should propose to cross” OR, 47, III, 829.

  219 “[I] wait for suggestions or directions” Crist, Papers, 11:556, note.

  220 “No mere love of excitement” Coggeshall, Journeys, 149.

  220 “the Square was brilliantly illuminated” Coggeshall, Journeys, 152.

  221 “I have never had a feeling politically” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:241.

  222 “On the old Independence bell” Coggeshall, Journeys, 153.

  223 “After a person was in line” Coggeshall, Journeys, 156.

  224 “My Dear Winnie / I have asked Mr. Harrison to go in search of you” Crist, Papers, 11:557-60.

  227 “it was fourteen feet long” Coggeshall, Journeys, 172.

  228 “The police, by strenuous exertions” Coggeshall, Journeys, 163.

  228 “The world never witnessed” Coggeshall, Journeys, 181.

  228 “There was no trace of the interior” Coggeshall, Journeys, 164.

  229 “The deportment of the people” Coggeshall, Journeys, 167.

  229 “Captain Parker Snow” Coggeshall, Journeys, 169.

  229 “With practiced fingers” Coggeshall, Journeys, 169-70.

  231 “As a mere pageant” Coggeshall, Journeys, 198.

  8: “HE IS NAMED FOR YOU”

  232 “The line of the Hudson River road” Townsend, Anecdotes, 233.

  234 The dispute between Townsend and Stanton over the photographing of Lincoln’s corpse appears in the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, 1, 46, 111, at pages 952-67.

  238 “His friends…saw the urgent” Mallory, “Last Days,” part 2, 246.

  238 “If you think it better” OR, 47, III, 841.

  238 “There is increasing hazard of desertion” Crist, Papers, 11:566.

  241 “The ladies…through” Coggeshall, Journeys, 205.

  242 “The last tribute” Coggeshall, Journeys, 206.

  243 “[T]wo days after” Mallory, “Last Days,” part 2, 246.

  243 “By your advice” OR, 47, III, 846.

  246 “As the President’s remains went farther westward” Townsend, Anecdotes, 235.

  246 “a rare privilege to kiss the coffin” Coggeshall, Journeys, 208.

  247 “You have confidence in yourself” Lincoln, Collected Works, 6:79 .

  248 “After we had joked” Reagan, Memoirs, 210.

  248 “The President of the Confederacy cannot” Reagan, Memoirs, 211.

  248 “his unselfish and patriotic devotion” Reagan, Memoirs, 211.

  249 “Miss Fields, of Wilson Street” Coggeshall, Journeys, 218.

  250 “To a gentleman, a stranger” Townsend, Anecdotes, 236.

  250 “It is surely not the fate” Crist, Papers, 11:569.

  251 “On our way to Abbeville” Reagan, Memoirs, 210.

  252 “dripping like tears on the remains” Coggeshall, Journeys, 219.

  253 “Bonfires and torches were lit” Coggeshall, Journeys, 219.

  256 “The white people seemed to be doing all they could” Crist, Papers, vol. 11, n. 12.

  258 “But he was slain—slain by slavery” Coggeshall, Journeys, 251.

  261 “At midnight the route” Townsend, Anecdotes, 237.

  261 “A succession of arches” Townsend, Anecdotes, 237.

  263 “who got a fresh scab from the arm of a little negro” Harrison, “Capture,” 138.

  264 “A magnificent arch spanned the street” Townsend, Anecdotes, 238.

  265 “nearly every building on Michigan Avenue” Townsend, Anecdotes, 238.

  266 “Captain, I am very sorry to hear that” Parker, Recollections, 391.

  266 “Mr. President, if you remain here you will be captured” Parker, Recollections, 391.

  267 “We witnessed…the raids made on the provisions” Reagan, Memoirs, 211.

  267 “When we reached Abbeville” Crist, Papers, vol. 11, n. 7. Reagan, Memoirs, 211.

  267 “The escort was here collected” Mallory, “Last Days,” part 2, 246.

  9: “COFFIN THAT SLOWLY PASSES”

  269 “Do not try to meet me” Crist, Papers, 11:576.

  271 “As usual, night was forgotten” Townsend, Anecdotes, 239.

  273 “The courier has just delivered yours and I hasten to reply” Crist, Papers, 11:580.

  274 “Thus closed this marvelous exhibition” Townsend, Anecdotes, 242.

  276 “The guard of honor having thus” Townsend, Anecdotes, 242.

  277 “My friends, no one, not in my situation” Lincoln, Collected Works, 4:190.

  278 “[Breckinridge] told me that after he reached Washington” Reagan, Memoirs, 214.

  279 “I inquired where he was going” Reagan, Memoirs, 211.

  279 “We found no federal cavalry” Reagan, Memoirs, 211.

  280 “About noon the town was thrown into the wildest excitement” Andrews, Journal, 175, 181, 189, 190, 201, 206, 212.

  280 “The troops are on the west side” Crist, Papers, 11:583.

  283 “Far more eyes have gazed upon the face” Coggeshall, Journeys, 308.

  283 “Standing, as we do today, by his coffin” Coggeshall, Journeys, 319.

  284 “Evergreen carpeted the stone floor” Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 4:413.

  288 “I am in such a state of excitement” Andrews, Journal, 204-6. 288 “It is with deep regret” Crist, Papers, 11:584. Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 6:586-87.

  288 “After some delay at Washington” Reagan, Memoirs, 212.

  289 “The President left town about ten o’clock” Andrews, Journal, 206. 289 “The talk now is” Andrews, Journal, 217.

  289 “This, I suppose, is the end” Andrews, Journal, 217. 289 “Twenty days after the terrible night” Coggeshall, Journeys, 325. 294 “Mr. Lincoln, on his way from Springfield to Washington” Townsend, Anecdotes, 243.

  301 “Fully realizing that so large a party” Lubbock, Six Decades, 571.

  302 “we halted on a small stream near Irwinville” Lubbock, Six Decades, 571.

  302 “We had all now agreed” Harrison, “Capture,” 142.

  302 “The President notified us to be ready” Reagan, Memoirs, 218.

  303 “After getting that promise from the President” Harrison, “Capture,” 142.

  303 “Time wore on” Lubbock, Six Decades, 571.

  10: “BY GOD, YOU ARE THE MEN WE ARE LOOKING FOR”

  304 “From thence we proceeded to a blind woods” OR, 49, I, 532.

  305 “Impressing a negro as a guide” OR, 49, I, 532.

  305 “[J]ust as the earliest dawn appeared” OR, 49, I, 536.

  307 “Colonel, do you hear the firing?” Harrison, “Capture,” 142.

  307 “As soon as one of them came within range” Harrison, “Capture,” 142.

  307 “At this moment” W. T. Walthall, “The True Story of the Capture of Jefferson Davis,” Southern Historical Society Papers 5, no. 3 (Mar. 1878).

  307 “We sprang immediately to our feet” Lubbock, Six Decades, 571.

  308 “When this firing occurred the troops in our front” Reagan, Memoirs, 219.

  308 “What does that mean? Have you any men” Harrison, “Capture,” 142.

  309 “The Federal cavalry are upon us” Reagan, Memoirs, 220.

  310 “Knowing he would be recognized” Chester Bradley, “Was Jefferson Davis Disguised as a Woman When Captured?” Journal of Mississippi History 36 (Aug. 1974), 243-68.

  311 “As I started, my wife thoughtfully threw over my head” Varina Davis, A Memoir, 2:701-2.

  311 “in a short time they were in possession of very ne
arly everything” Lubbock, Six Decades, 572.

  312 “I emptied the contents of my haversack” Harrison, “Capture,” 144.

  312 “This is a bad business” Walthall, “True Story,” 14.

  314 “The hardest to bear of all the humiliations” Andrews, Journal, 238.

  315 “As soon as the firing ceased I returned to camp” OR, 49, I, 536.

  316 “I had been astonished to discover” Harrison, “Capture,” 144.

  316 “The man who a few days before” Lubbock, Six Decades, 572.

  316 “[S]he bore up with womanly fortitude” Lubbock, Six Decades, 573.

  320 “We have not got your saddle bags” Reagan, Memoirs, 221.

  322 “When we reached Macon” Reagan, Memoirs, 221.

  323 “As one of the means of making the Confederate cause odious” Reagan, Memoirs, 221.

  323 “When I came up from breakfast” French, Witness, 477.

  324 “Intelligence was received this morning” Welles, Diary, 2:306.

  324 “I am sitting in the President’s Office” Townsend, John Wilkes Booth, 57-58.

  326 “I am glad to sit in his chair” Townsend, John Wilkes Booth, 62.

  328 “Barnum is a shrewd businessman” Strong, Diary, 3:598.

  330 “ample provision being made for the families” OR, 49, I, 516.

  11: “LIVING IN A TOMB”

  333 “They have him in his prison house” Lincoln, Collected Works, 2:403-7.

  335 “Mrs. Mary Lincoln left the City on Monday evening” French, Witness, 479.

  336 “[T]he great review of the returning armies” Welles, Diary, 2:310.

  337 “I put a gilded eagle over the front door” French, Witness, 478.

  346 “I hate the Yankees more and more” Andrews, Journal, 371.

  349 “I am now permitted to write you” Crist, Papers, 12:13.

  349 “With regret and apprehension I have heard” Crist, Papers, 12:44.

  351 “Last Christmas we had a home” Crist, Papers, 12:80.

  351 “I hope that you will not think me a rude little girl” Crist, Papers, 12:114.

  352 “It is true that I have not made [Jefferson Davis]” OR, 914.

  354 “The prison life by Dr. Craven” Crist, Papers, 12:153.

  355 “I urged that the welfare of the whole country” Reagan, Memoirs, 231.

  356 “poor Davis…wasted and careworn” Crist, Papers, 12:210.

  357 “Last Friday [June 1], Hollywood was glorified with flowers” Crist, Papers, 12:214.

  12: “THE SHADOW OF THE CONFEDERACY”

  365 “I did not like the man” Strode, Tragic Years, 459-62.

  366 “I have been compelled to prove General Sherman” Strode, Tragic Years, 473.

  374 “Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens” Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 10:47.

  375 “Permit me to cordially congratulate you” Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 10:72.

  376 “The package containing all of our correspondence” Crist, Papers, 1:348.

  377 “Dreams my dear Sarah we will agree” Crist, Papers, 1:345.

  377 “The shadow of the Confederacy” Varina Howell Davis to Constance Cary Harrison, transcript in the collection of the author, courtesy of the Papers of Jefferson Davis.

  INDEX

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  Abbeville, Ga., 298, 299, 305, 330

  Abbeville, S.C., 219, 250-51, 262-63, 266-67, 273-74, 280

  abolitionists, xi, 53, 356

  Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, 392-93

  Adams, John, 53

  Adams, John Quincy, 167, 180

  Agriculture Department, U.S., Farm Security Administration of, 399-400

  Aiken’s Landing, 17

  Alabama, 77, 366, 377, 383

  Albany, N.Y., 199, 234, 235, 237, 241

  Alexander, Dr., 138, 186, 286

  Alexander, John, 285

  Alexandria, Va., 163-65, 192, 208, 331, 382

  American Museum, 345

  American Revolution, 220-21

  Anderson, Finley, 126

  Anderson, Joseph Reid, 62

  Anderson, S.C., 245

  Andersonville Prison, 344, 350

  Andrews, Eliza Frances, 73-74, 280, 288-89, 313-14, 346-47

  Andrews, Garnett, 73, 288

  Annapolis, Md., 214

  Antietam, battle of, 112

  Antietam, Md., 16, 156

  Appomattox Court House, Va., 77-78, 82, 94, 147, 206, 361

  Appomattox River, 6, 21-22

  Arkansas, 123

  Arlington National Cemetery, 396

  Army, U.S., 53, 102, 140-41, 148, 192, 237, 354

  Company D of the Seventy-fourth Regiment of, 242

  First Wisconsin Cavalry of, 256, 298, 305-6, 313-14, 330

  Fourth Michigan Cavalry of, 256, 298, 304-7, 310, 313-16, 321, 322, 330

  frontier wars of, 361

  Lincoln’s assassination and, 108

  Lincoln’s funeral and, 150

  Northern Department of Ohio in, 247

  Second Cavalry Division, 297

  Sixteenth New York Cavalry of, 314

  Twelfth Veteran Reserve Corps of, 208

  see also Union Army

  Army of Georgia (Union), 336

  Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate), 5, 13-14, 24, 26, 41, 67, 69, 74, 76

  surrender of, 78, 79-80, 81-82, 91, 95, 102, 195, 197, 205-6, 224

  Army of Tennessee (Confederate), 67

  Army of the Potomac (Union), 176, 329-30, 336, 337

  Army of the Tennessee (Union), 336

  Army of the West (Union), 329-30

  Arnold, Isaac N., 151

  Asheville, N.C., 245

  Ashmun, George, 158-59

  Associated Press, 151

  Atlanta, Ga., 3, 76, 279, 323, 371, 372, 383

  Atlanta Constitution, 367, 370-71

  Auburn, N.Y., 391

  Augur, C. C., 116, 126, 150-51

  Augusta, Ga., 245, 262

  Bahamas, 122, 273

  Baker, C., 126

  Baker, Edward D., 167-68, 180

  Ball’s Bluff, battle of, 167

  Baltimore, Md., 98, 199, 203, 212-17, 218, 239, 346

  Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 208

  Barnes, Joseph K., 108-9, 117, 133-34, 188, 354

  Barnum, P. T., 327-29, 344-45

  Barringer, Victor C., 122

  Bates, Edward, 170

  Bates, Lewis F., 194-97

  Beauregard, P. G. T., 67, 87, 204

  Beauvoir, 362-64, 362, 366-67, 371, 373, 375-76, 377, 382, 403

  Hurricane Katrina and, 402-3

  Bedell, Grace, 246

  Beecher, Henry Ward, 239-40

  Ben-Hur (Wallace), 240

  Benjamin, Judah, 8, 32-33, 41, 86, 247, 273, 274

  departure of, 278-79, 317

  Benton, Thomas Hart, 52

  Bersch, Carl, 104-5, 130

  Bible, xii, 52, 60, 292

  Biloxi, Miss., 362

  Black Hawk, 58

  Black Hawk War, 57-58

  blacks:

  in captured Richmond, 26, 39, 44-46, 64

  Davis’s location reported to Union troops by, 256, 302

  Davis’s views on, 53-54, 60-61

  liberation of, 26, 32, 44-47

  Lincoln honored by, 44-46, 64, 158, 217, 261, 340

  Lincoln’s views on, 53-54, 61

  New York draft riots and lynching of, 34

  racism directed towards, 398

  Reconstruction and, 361

  voting rights for, 90

  white supremacy and, 53-54, 60-61

  Blair, Montgomery, 170

  Bonham, Milledge L., 94

  Booth, John Wilkes, xi, 34, 93, 96-97, 129, 130, 367

  allegorical lithograph of, 136, 137


  capture and death of, 238, 241, 243, 244, 287, 314, 317, 342

  Confederate connection of, 121

  conspirators of, 147, 196, 214, 215, 293

  images of, 240

  Lincoln’s assassination by, 100-101, 106-7, 110, 136, 192, 276, 325

  manhunt for, 111, 147, 204, 244, 268, 296-98, 317, 400

  tried and executed co-conspirators of, 319, 340-41, 342-44, 343, 347, 356

  wax figures of, 344, 392-93

  Boston, Mass., 99

  Boutell, Henry, 306

  Boyd, Andrew, 125

  Boyd, William H., 125

  Bradford, A. W., 214, 217

  Bradford, David, 72

  Brady, Mathew, 189, 192, 205, 239

  Bragg, Braxton, 14, 204

  Breckinridge, John C., 76, 196, 204-5, 211-12, 247, 278-82, 288, 317

  1860 presidential candidacy of, 53

  Richmond evacuation and, 5-6, 9, 23-24, 26-27, 41, 72

  Brierfield, 72, 248, 377

  Broad River, S.C., 247, 250

  Brooks, Daniel, 265

  Brooks, Noah, 35, 39, 79, 127, 160, 166

  Brooks, Preston, 115

  Brooks Brothers, 139

  Brough, John, 247

  Brown, Charles, 138, 186, 281-82, 286

  Brown, John, xi-xii, xiii, 356

  Brown, Simeon B., 245

  Browning, Orville Hickman, 133, 145, 153, 171, 200

  Brown’s Ferry, 298

  Buchanan, James, 6, 220

  Buena Vista, battle of, 52, 309

  Buffalo, N.Y., 199, 241-43

  Bull Run, battle of, 112

  Bureau of Military Justice, 296, 320

  Burke, Francis, 95, 114

  Burnside, Ambrose, 176

  Burr, Frank A., 367, 371

  Burt, Armistead, 266

  Bush, George W., 400

  Bush, Laura, 400

  Cadwalader, George, 217

  California, 167, 309

  Cameron, Simon, 141, 158-59

  Campbell, Givhan, 301

  Campbell, John Archibald, 62

  Canada, 243

  Capitol, U.S., 49, 93, 119, 133, 143, 152, 336-37, 350

  Davis statue in, 400, 401

  funeral procession to, 149-50, 158, 190-93, 209, 286, 330, 382, 386, 400

  Lincoln’s lying in state at, 140, 148, 150, 185, 197-200, 207-9, 215, 286, 391

  Carolina Life Insurance Company, 359