Why Was Lincoln Murdered?

Otto Eisenschiml

• Publisher: Gleed Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781406776140, 9781443731812
• eBook ISBN: 9781528760942
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia del mundo

Why did General Grant suddenly alter his plans and decide not to go to Ford's Theater on the evening of Lincoln's assassination? Who, during that same night, tampered with the telegraph wires leading out of Washington? Why was the President's bodyguard at the playhouse, guilty of the grossest negligence, not punished nor even questioned? Perhaps the most serious reproach against historical writers is not that they have left such questions unanswered, but that they have failed to ask them. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

INDEX

ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, informed of Lincoln’s death, 8–10, 63, 64, 207

Aiken, Mr., defending conspirators, 236, 240

Anderson, Major, 402

Andrew, Gov. John, his petition for Beall, 374

Antietam, Burnside at, 478, 479

Appletons’ Cyclopædia, on battle of Fredericksburg, 338

Argus, Albany, its theory of Booth’s visit to Kirkwood House, 463

Arnold, Samuel B., his fatal letter to Booth, 43, 47, 48, 208, 211

and kidnap plot, 44, 47–49

and Booth, 50, 305

tortured, 175–180

confined at Dry Tortugas, 180–183

testimony against, 244, 251

vindicates Mudd, 269

his unimportance, 293, 294

on Stanton’s death list, 304

refuses to implicate Johnson, 383

Ashley, Congressman, of Ohio, 310

attacks Johnson, 382–384, 393, 394

Associated Press, and news of the assassination, 65–67, 73–75, 77

and bogus proclamation, 455

Atzerodt, George A., conspirator, 44, 50, 51, 283

his attempt to kill Johnson, 162, 166–170, 172

tortured, 175–180

official description of, 195

at the bar, 250

Fletcher’s disclosures concerning, 272

and the Surratt evidence, 290, 293

on Stanton’s death list, 303

Booth and, 305

his easy escape, 457

his confession, 469, 470

Augur, Gen. Christopher C., 46, 105, 106, 118, 121

and Richards, 68, 111

asks Stanton for instructions, 99, 100

his orders to Slough, 101

his odd conduct, 114, 122, 133

and Fletcher’s disclosures, 272, 273

BADEAU, ADAM, 54, 55, 57

on stanton, 432

Bainbridge, Lieut. A. R., and Booth, 172, 302–304, 474, 475

Baker, Col. (later Gen.) Lafayette C., 98

and the search for Booth, 115, 118, 121, 124–129, 134, 135

his Secret Service, 139, 140, 145–151, 185

and Booth’s diary, 140–145

Johnson turns against, 145

his death, 151, 152

his orders for conspirators, 181–183

a confidant of Stanton, 189, 190

and Surratt ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• I The Fourteenth of April
• II Assassination
• III The Strange Career of John F. Parker
• IV What Really Happened at Ford’s Theater
• V The President Is Refused Protection
• VI Premonitions vs. Secret Service Reports
• VII Grant Suddenly Leaves Washington
• VIII How the News of the Tragedy Was Handled
• IX Every Avenue of Escape Blocked—Save One
• X The Man Hunt Is On!
• XI John Fletcher Tells His Story
• XII Baker Directs the Pursuit
• XIII The End of the Trail
• XIV Death Visits Garrett’s Farm
• XV The Plots Against Grant, Stanton and Johnson
• XVI Stanton Invents a Novel Torture
• XVII Stanton’s Inner Council
• XVIII The Odyssey of John Harrison Surratt
• XIX The Case Against Jefferson Davis
• XX The Setting for the Conspiracy Trial
• XXI The Prisoners at the Bar
• XXII The Woman in the Case
• XXIII The Conspirators Who Went Free
• XXIV Not Wanted—Victory in the East
• XXV Not Wanted—Victory in the West
• XXVI The Case Against the Radicals
• XXVII The Case Against John Wilkes Booth
• XXVIII The Case Against Andrew Johnson
• XXIX The Case Against Stanton
• Conclusion
• Supplementary Notes
• Acknowledgement
• Index