Lincoln Assassination

L. Symonds Craig, J. Williams Frank

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The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and intense interest from scholars, writers, and armchair historians alike, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. At the end of the Lincoln bicentennial year, and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial, the leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their latest studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction (which was more complex than has been previously believed), and the iconography that Lincoln's murder and deification inspired. Contributors also offer the most up-to-date accounts of the parallel legal event of the summer of 1865-the relentless pursuit, prosecution, and punishment of the conspirators. Everything from graphic tributes to religious sermons, to spontaneous outbursts on the streets of the nation's cities, to emotional mass-mourning at carefully organized funerals, as well as the imposition of military jurisprudence to try the conspirators, is examined in the light of fresh evidence and insightful analysis.The contributors are among the finest scholars who are studying Lincoln's assassination. All have earned well-deserved reputations for the quality of their research, their thoroughness, their originality, and their writing. In addition to the editors, contributors include Thomas R. Turner, Edward Steers Jr., Michael W. Kauffman, Thomas P. Lowry, Richard E. Sloan, Elizabeth D. Leonard, and Richard Nelson Current.

Sujets

• Lettres et linguistique
• USA
• United States of America
• History of the Americas
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Fordham University Press
• Date de parution: 03 décembre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780823263950
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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The Lincoln Assassination

Th eLi n c o l nFo r u m

The Lincoln Assassination

Crime and Punishment, Myth and Memory

edited b y Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS N e w Yo r k•2 0 1 0

Frontispiece: A. Bancroft, after a photograph by the Mathew Brady Gallery,To the Memory of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States . . . .Lithograph, published in Philadelphia,1865. (Indianapolis Museum of Art, Mary B. Milliken Fund)

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The Lincoln assassination : crime and punishment, myth and memory / edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams.—1st ed. p. cm.— (The North’s Civil War) ‘‘The Lincoln Forum.’’ Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN978-0-8232-3226-0(cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN978-0-8232-3228-4(eBook) 1. Lincoln, Abraham,1809–1865—Assassination.2. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809–1865—Death and burial.3. Assassins—United States—History—19th century.4. Conspiracies—United States—History—19th century. I. Holzer, Harold. II. Symonds, Craig L. III. Williams, Frank J. IV. Lincoln Forum. E457.5.L735 2010 973.7092—dc22 2009054038

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Contents

List ofIllustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1Deathbed in Art and Memory:. Lincoln’s The ‘‘Rubber Room’’ Phenomenon Harold Holzer and Frank J. Williams 2Lincoln’s New York City Funeral. Abraham Richard E. Sloan 3Everybody Mourned Lincoln’s Death. Not Thomas P. Lowry 4Chief Avenger: Judge Advocate General. Lincoln’s Joseph Holt Elizabeth D. Leonard 5. The Lincoln Assassination in Law and Lore Frank J. Williams

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6. Writing History in a Vacuum: The Lincoln Assassination Thomas R. Turner

7. ‘‘Let the Stain of Innocent Blood Be Removed from the Land’’: The Military Trial of the Lincoln Conspirators Edward Steers Jr.

8. Process versus Truth in the Case of the Lincoln Conspiracy Michael W. Kauffman

9. The Martyr and the Myth: The Lincoln Nobody Knows Richard Nelson Current

List ofContributors

Board ofAdvisors of theLincolnForum

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A. Bancroft, after a photograph by the Mathew Brady Gallery,To the Memory of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States. . . . Lithograph,1865Frontispiece

1. Lincoln’s Deathbed in Art and Memory: The ‘‘Rubber Room’’ Phenomenon 1The Petersen House—the boarding house where Abraham Lincoln died—in a late-nineteenth-century cabinet photograph 2Albert Berghaus, [Lincoln’s feet protruding from deathbed coverlet], Washington,1865 3Hermann Faber, [The death of Lincoln], Washington, 1865 4N[athaniel]. Currier,Death of Washington, Dec:14. A.D.1799.Lithograph, New York,1846 5Currier & Ives,Death of President Lincoln./At Washington, D.C., April15th,1865./The Nation’s Martyr.Lithograph,1865

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6George Patterson, after John Frederick Herring Sr.,The Village Blacksmith 7Currier & Ives,Death of President Lincoln . . . . Lithograph (second state),1865 8Currier & Ives,The Death Bed of the Martyr President Abraham Lincoln./Washington, Saturday Morning, April15th,1865, at22Minutes Past7o’clock. Lithograph,1865 9H. H. Lloyd & Co.,Lincoln’s Death Bed./453Tenth Street, Washington, D.C.Wood engraving, ca.1865 10Printmaker unknown, [Deathbed of Lincoln], ca.1865 11J[ohn]. H. Bufford,Last Moments of President Lincoln./ Washington, D.C., April15th,1865. Lithograph,1865 12Gustave May,Die Letzten Augenblicke des Prasidenten Lincoln./Am15April1865. The Last Moments of the President Lincoln./15April1865.Lithograph,1865 13E[dmund]. B[urke]. & E[lijah]. C[hapmam]. Kellogg, Death of Abraham Lincoln./April15th1865. Lithograph,1865 14C. A. Asp,Death Bed of Lincoln. Engraving, Washington, ca.1865 15J[oseph]. L. Magee,Death Bed of Abraham Lincoln./ Died April15th1865 16E. H. Miller, after Alexander Gardner,The Last Moments of Lincoln,/15th April,1865 17Max Rosenthal,The Last Moments of Abraham Lincoln President of the United States./April15th1865 18A[lexander]. H[ay]. Ritchie, [Death of Lincoln].Steel engraving, New York,1868 19Key to the Ritchie engraving,1868 20John H. Littlefield,Death-Bed of Lincoln./April15th 1865 21Alonzo Chappel,The Last Hours of Lincoln[1868]

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22Mathew Brady Gallery, [Robert Lincoln]. Photograph, Washington, ca.1868 23Mathew Brady Gallery, [Andrew Johnson]. Photograph, Washington, ca.1868 24Mathew Brady Gallery, [Hugh McCulloch and Edwin M. Stanton], ca.1868 25Original salesman’s subscription book forThe Last Hours of Abraham Lincoln 26Brief Sayings of Eminent Men, issued in praise of the Chappel painting 27Engraver unknown,The Last Hours of Lincoln./Key 28M. David,Key to the Last Day of Lincoln, by A. Chappel:1865[sic]. Lithograph,1908 29John Tenniel,Britannia Sympathises with Columbia. Woodcut engraving, May6,1865

2. Abraham Lincoln’s New York City Funeral

1The southern tip of City Hall Park, from a nineteenth- century print 2The same view of City Hall Park as it appears today 3The decorations at the Astor House as recorded after his death by an anonymous diarist 4Singers joining members of the New York City Council around Lincoln’s casket 5The restored City Hall, photographed in2006 6Jeremiah Gurney’s photograph of Abraham Lincoln in his open casket inside City Hall, New York 7Currier & Ives lithograph of Lincoln’s body in the City Hall Rotunda 8The landing atop the famous staircase in the City Hall Rotunda 9The scene at midnight during the Lying in State

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