Bloody Crimes (61 page)

141
“On reporting to the President”
Edward D. Townsend,
Anecdotes of the Civil War in the United States
(New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1884), 77.

144
“[Mrs. Lincoln] was nearly exhausted with grief”
Elizabeth Keckly,
Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
(New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1868), 189.

144
“I saw the remains of the President”
French,
Witness,
471.

144
“We stood together”
French,
Witness,
471.

145
“was looking as natural as life”
Orville Hickman Browning,
The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning,
eds. Theodore Calvin Pease and James G. Randall (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925-1933). 2:22.

145
“It tells a long story of duns and loiterers”
George Alfred Townsend,
The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
(New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, 1865), 59.

148
“Proposed arrangements for the Funeral and disposition of the Remains” Papers of George Harrington,
Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri. To avoid repetition, all documents drafted by Harrington, and all correspondence to and from him, come from the same source, his personal papers.

151
“We agreed…to return at 7 to meet”
French,
Witness,
472.

6: “WE SHALL SEE AND KNOW OUR FRIENDS IN HEAVEN”

160
“On the night of the seventeenth”
Brooks,
Washington in Lincoln’s Time,
232.

163
“Well…it is only a dream”
Ward Hill Lamon,
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865, by Ward Hill Lamon,
ed. Dorothy Lamon (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1895), 112-14.

164
“‘Excuse me,’ he said, ‘but I cannot talk’”
Burlingame,
Lincoln,
2:177. Burlingame covers the death of Ellsworth in detail.

165
“My dear Sir and Madam, In the untimely loss”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
4:385.

170
“Well, Nicolay, my boy is gone”
Burlingame,
Lincoln, 2
:298

170
“When you came to the door here”
Burlingame,
Lincoln, 2
:299.

174
“He comes to me every night”
Katherine Helm,
The True Story of Mary, Wife of Lincoln
(New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928 ), 227.

177
“Dear Fanny”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
6:17

181
“I found one of the sleeves of his shirt”
Surratt Society.

182
“We discussed…whether”
Sherman,
Memoirs,
2:351.

182
“Our necessities exclude the idea”
Rowland,
Jefferson Davis,
6:549.

183
“During all this march Mr. Davis was singularly equable”
Harrison, “Capture,” 136.

186
“Approach and look at the dead man”
Townsend,
John Wilkes Booth,
14.

189
“I am the resurrection and the life”
William Turner Coggeshall,
The Journeys of Abraham Lincoln: From Springfield to Washington, 1861, as President Elect and From Washington to Springfield, 1865, as President Martyred
(Columbus: Ohio State Journal, 1865), 119. Cited hereafter as
Journeys.

193
“The cortege passed to the left”
Townsend,
John Wilkes Booth,
18.

7: “THE CAUSE IS NOT YET DEAD”

194
“there seemed to be nothing to do”
Harrison, “Capture,” 136.

195
“My friends, I thank you for this evidence of your affection”
Crist,
Papers,
11:549.

196
“President Lincoln was assassinated”
Crist,
Papers,
11:544.

196
“At Charlotte…we received the melancholy news”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
208.

196
“conviction of Mr. Lincoln’s”
Mallory, “Last Days,” part 2, 244.

197
“fearful news”
Crist,
Papers,
11:544-46.

197
“Give me a good force of cavalry”
OR, 47, III, 813-14.

198
“At night the jets of gas”
Townsend,
John Wilkes Booth,
18.

199
“We saw him the last time”
Newman, “Mystery Occupant’s.”

204
“Genl. Breckinridge…telegraphs to me”
Crist,
Papers,
11:551.

205
“Train will start for you at midnight”
OR, 47, III, 814.

205
“Mr. President: The apprehension I expressed during the winter”
Lee,
Wartime Papers,
938.

206
“No other course now seemed open”
Mallory, “Last Days,” part 2, 246.

209
“There was never a moment throughout the whole journey”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
224.

212
“Paroled men and stragglers seized my train”
OR, 47, III, 819.

215
“The body of this hearse”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
144.

215
“were tastefully arranged evergreens”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
224-25.

216
“No bearers, except the veteran guard”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
224.

218
“A driving rain and the darkness of the evening”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
225.

219
“If you should propose to cross”
OR, 47, III, 829.

219
“[I] wait for suggestions or directions”
Crist,
Papers,
11:556, note.

220
“No mere love of excitement”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
149.

220
“the Square was brilliantly illuminated”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
152.

221
“I have never had a feeling politically”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
4:241.

222
“On the old Independence bell”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
153.

223
“After a person was in line”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
156.

224
“My Dear Winnie / I have asked Mr. Harrison to go in search of you”
Crist,
Papers,
11:557-60.

227
“it was fourteen feet long”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
172.

228
“The police, by strenuous exertions”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
163.

228
“The world never witnessed”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
181.

228
“There was no trace of the interior”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
164.

229
“The deportment of the people”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
167.

229
“Captain Parker Snow”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
169.

229
“With practiced fingers”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
169-70.

231
“As a mere pageant”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
198.

8: “HE IS NAMED FOR YOU”

232
“The line of the Hudson River road”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
233.

234 The dispute between Townsend and Stanton over the photographing of Lincoln’s corpse appears in the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, 1, 46, 111, at pages 952-67.

238
“His friends…saw the urgent”
Mallory, “Last Days,” part 2, 246.

238
“If you think it better”
OR, 47, III, 841.

238
“There is increasing hazard of desertion”
Crist,
Papers,
11:566.

241
“The ladies…through”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
205.

242
“The last tribute”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
206.

243
“[T]wo days after”
Mallory, “Last Days,” part 2, 246.

243
“By your advice”
OR, 47, III, 846.

246
“As the President’s remains went farther westward”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
235.

246
“a rare privilege to kiss the coffin”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
208.

247
“You have confidence in yourself”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
6:79 .

248
“After we had joked”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
210.

248
“The President of the Confederacy cannot”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
211.

248
“his unselfish and patriotic devotion”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
211.

249
“Miss Fields, of Wilson Street”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
218.

250
“To a gentleman, a stranger”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
236.

250
“It is surely not the fate”
Crist,
Papers,
11:569.

251
“On our way to Abbeville”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
210.

252
“dripping like tears on the remains”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
219.

253
“Bonfires and torches were lit”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
219.

256
“The white people seemed to be doing all they could”
Crist,
Papers,
vol. 11, n. 12.

258
“But he was slain
—
slain by slavery”
Coggeshall,
Journeys,
251.

261
“At midnight the route”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
237.

261
“A succession of arches”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
237.

263
“who got a fresh scab from the arm of a little negro”
Harrison, “Capture,” 138.

264
“A magnificent arch spanned the street”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
238.

265
“nearly every building on Michigan Avenue”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
238.

266
“Captain, I am very sorry to hear that”
Parker,
Recollections,
391.

266
“Mr. President, if you remain here you will be captured”
Parker,
Recollections,
391.

267
“We witnessed…the raids made on the provisions”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
211.

267
“When we reached Abbeville”
Crist,
Papers,
vol. 11, n. 7. Reagan,
Memoirs,
211.

267
“The escort was here collected”
Mallory, “Last Days,” part 2, 246.

9: “COFFIN THAT SLOWLY PASSES”

269
“Do not try to meet me”
Crist,
Papers,
11:576.

271
“As usual, night was forgotten”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
239.

273
“The courier has just delivered yours and I hasten to reply”
Crist,
Papers,
11:580.

274
“Thus closed this marvelous exhibition”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
242.

276
“The guard of honor having thus”
Townsend,
Anecdotes,
242.

277
“My friends, no one, not in my situation”
Lincoln,
Collected Works,
4:190.

278
“[Breckinridge] told me that after he reached Washington”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
214.

279
“I inquired where he was going”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
211.

279
“We found no federal cavalry”
Reagan,
Memoirs,
211.

280
“About noon the town was thrown into the wildest excitement”
Andrews,
Journal,
175, 181, 189, 190, 201, 206, 212.