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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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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 21: closing events of the War.--assassination of the President. (search)
awing to a close, when, at a little past ten o'clock, John Wilkes Booth, an actor by profession, passed near the box where ththbone was startled by the report of the pistol, and seeing Booth, who was half hidden by the powder-smoke that filled the boled into the open country beyond the Anacosta, in search of Booth, the principal executor of the assassination plot. At thst of the assassin, then unknown. Suspicion pointed toward Booth as the murderer of the President. Cavalry and a heavy polie in the matter. Men were designated as the accomplices of Booth, now known to have been the assassin of the President, and cavalry and police were sent in pursuit of them. Booth was overtaken in Virginia, below Fredericksburg, concealed in a barn.ll Mr. Seward, was soon arrested, with other accomplices of Booth, and some of them, with a woman named Surratt, whose house,ington City, appears to have been a place of rendezvous for Booth and his accomplices, were tried, by a military commission,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
Bolivar, Simon Buckner, at the head of the Kentucky State Guard, 1.458; his treason, 1.459. Bolivar Heights, skirmish at, 2.137. Bombardment of Fort Sumter, 1.320. Booneville, battle near, 1.541; stay of Gen. Lyon at, 1.543. Booth, John Wilkes, his assassination of President. Lincoln, 3.564; death of, 3.570. Boston Mountains, battle of, 2.534. Bowling Green, abandoned by the Confederates, 2.230. Boyce, W. W., speech of in favor of secession, 1.47. Boydton Plank Roadletter of John A. Kennedy, in relation to his journey from Philadelphia to Washington (note), 2.147; re-election of, 3.451; declarations of, 3.452; his visit to Richmond after the surrender, 3.562; his return to Washington, 3.563; assassinated by Booth, 3.564; his funeral, 3.570. Little Bethel, expedition against, 1.504. Little Blue Creek, battle at, 3.279. Little Osage River, battle at, 3.280. Little Rock, capture of by Gen. Steele, 3.216. Little Round Top, at Gettysburg, strugg