President Lincoln Assassinated!!
The Firsthand Story of the Murder, Manhunt, Trial, and Mourning
New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States, [2014]
Format: Book
Description: xxxiii, 446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
"President Lincoln Assassinated!! recaptures the dramatic and terrifying immediacy of Lincoln's murder and the coordinated attack on Secretary of State William H. Seward, the hunt for the conspirators, their military trial, and the unprecedented national mourning for our first martyred president. The story is told through more than eighty original documents ... [and] by more than seventy-five participants and observers, including the assassin John Wilkes Booth, Everton Conger, the detective who tracked him down, and Boston Corbett, the soldier who shot him."
Contents:
The assassination of the President and the punishment of the conspirators -- Mourning and remembering Lincoln -- Coda.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Death and burial.
Assassins -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Conspiracies -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Death and burial.
Assassins -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Conspiracies -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9781598533736
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War Civil Lincoln Pre | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY War Civil Lincoln Pre | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY War Civil Lincoln Pre | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
"A special publication of the Library of America."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-436) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-436) and index.