Lincoln's Assassins

Table of Contents

Volume 1
Preface     

I “Blood, Blood, All Around”     
II Two Horsemen Riding Very Fast     
III While the President Still Breathes     
IV Someone to Fill the Vacuum     
V The Man Called Mars     
VI “. . . Find the Murderer”     
VII Easter Sunday, 1865     
VIII First Confessions     
IX The Honor of a Lady     
X A View of Swampoodle     
XI “Communication with Jeff Davis”     
XII Unanswered Questions     
XIII Lamentations for a Modern Moses     
XIV “. . . To Get Him Across”     
XV The Conspiracy Puzzle     
XVI Conflicting Evidence     
XVII “Tell My Mother I Died for My Country”     
XVIII Filling in the Gaps     
XIX “I Do Not Know, Sir—I Declare I Do Not Know”     
XX “Any Statement You Make Will Be Used”     
XXI The Final List     
XXII Care That They Not Escape     
XXIII “. . . And Others Unknown”     
XXIV “A Horrid Sight”     

XXV Abhorrence of All Things Secret     
XXVI Justice in Epaulets     
XXVII On Trial but Not in Chains     
XXVIII A Large Boot, Slit Down the Side     
XXIX “We Are the Assassins of the President”     
XXX Confessions, Blockade-Runners and Secret Ciphers     

Volume 2
XXXI “Yes, That’s the Man”     
XXXII Empty Sleeves Dangling in the Spring Air     
XXXIII In Defense of Mary Surratt     
XXXIV A Loyal Citizen?     
XXXV A Growing Weariness     
XXXVI “Where Is Ma?”     
XXXVII Guilt and Insanity     
XXXVIII Rebel Complicity?     
XXXIX What He Knew and When     
XL “. . . What a Phenomenon He Was”     
XLI Education for Murder     
XLII After Mature Consideration     
XLIII Death Cells     
XLIV Thirteen Steps     
XLV Dry Tortugas     
XLVI “An Absurdity Unsurpassed”     
XLVII Impeaching the Impeachers     
XLVIII “The Son Is Here Before You”     
XLIX Memories of the Terrible Spring     
L The Stretch of Darkening Folds     

Epilogue     
Chapter Notes     
Selected Bibliography     
Index