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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 36 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 24 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 20 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 20 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 18 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 18 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 14 0 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 8 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 8 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 6 0 Browse Search
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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 37. (search)
f malignant secessionists, consisting of John Wilkes Booth, an actor of a family of famous players; It was only about noon of the fourteenth that Booth learned that the President was to go to Ford'sthe night, burned without showing to any one. Booth was perfectly at home in Ford's Theater. Eithnife wound in the arm. Then, rushing forward, Booth placed his hand on the railing of the box and ght proved the death-warrant of them both. Booth had been recognized by dozens of people as he e moonlight to the house of an acquaintance of Booth, a surgeon named Mudd, who set Booth's leg andbe accepted as natural and necessary. He kept Booth and Herold in hiding at the peril of his life one who gave him up. With such devoted aid Booth might have wandered a long way; but there is though none, indeed, offered to betray them. Booth had by this time seen the comments of the newsBowling Green. When called upon to surrender, Booth refused. A parley took place, after which Doh[8 more...]