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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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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Why John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln. (search)
Why John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln. Committed the crime, not to aid the South, but to seek revenge for have been content to state the simple fact that J. Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Lincoln in Ford's Theith the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. * * * John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Mr. Lincoln was a citizen off the South or of the Southern cause that prompted Mr. Booth's crime, but rather a spirit of revenge for the peoln had done in having Captain John Y. Beall, one of Booth's friends, unjustly executed. The editor of the Cmartial and sentenced to death as a pirate. John Wilkes Booth interested himself in his behalf; obtained frounder instructions from the Confederate government. Booth went to Washington armed with these documents and seGovernor's Island, N. Y., on Feb. 24, 1865. John Wilkes Booth was not a well-balanced man at his best. Douber Captain Beall was hanged, the plot was executed. Booth shot Mr. Lincoln at Ford's theatre, Washington, excl
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
175. Banks, Defeat of General, 252. Bate, General W. B., 132. Beall, Captain John Yates, Execution of, 124, 131. Beauregard, General G. T., 123. Belmont, Battle of, 125. Benjamin, J. P., 107; after the war in England, 170; his estimate of Gladstone and D'Israeli, 171. Bentonville, Battle of, 295. Berkeley, Colonel Edmund, 223. Bethel, Battle of, 289. Beverley, Road to, 10. Blockading, Confederate, insufficient, 111; private, 114. Bloody Angle, The, 200. Booth, J. W., Why he shot Lincoln, 99. Bragg, General Braxton, 127. Braxton's Battery, 240. Breast-plates in Federal Army, 221. Brown, Execution of John, 279. Buchanan, Admiral Franklin, 244. Buchanan, President Against Coercion, 31. Buell, General Don Carlos, 124, 131. Bullock, Captain James D., 114. Burnside, General A. E., 265. Burton, General H. W., 346. Caddall, J. B., 174. Calhoun, John C., 28, 106. Campbell, John A, 107. Cameran, W. E., 347. Carr