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Page numbers in
italics
refer to illustrations.

abolition movement
Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp
(play)
Alaska
Alexander the Great
Amelia Court House
Anderson, Richard “Fighting Dick,”
Anderson, Robert
Antietam
Appomattox Court House, Lee’s
surrender at
Appomattox River
Army of Northern Virginia

last days of war
surrender of

Arnold, Isaac
Arnold, Samuel

trial and sentence of

Arsenal Penitentiary
Arthur, Chester
Ashmun, George
assassination, human history of
assassination conspiracy

against Johnson
against Lincoln
against Seward
Booth approaches state box
Booth arrives at Ford’s Theatre
Booth escapes
death of Lincoln
escape route
hanging of co-conspirators
hideout in Maryland
imprisonment of co-conspirators
Lincoln shot
Lincoln’s last hours after shooting
newspapers on
planning of
search for conspirators
Stanton and
trial and sentencing of co-conspirators
see also specific conspirators

Atzerodt, George

arrest of
escape of
failure to assassinate Johnson
hanging of
role in assassination plot
trial of

Baker, Lafayette C.

Booth investigation
death of
as double agent
life after Booth’s death

Baker, Luther
Baltimore
Baltimore Plot
Baptist Alley
Barnes, Joseph
Bell, William
Belle Plain, Virginia
Benning’s Bridge
Bible
black flag warfare
Black Hawk War
blacks

suffrage
as Union soldiers
see also slavery

Black Thursday
Booth, Edwin
Booth, John Wilkes

acting career
approaches state box
arrives at Ford’s Theatre
autopsy and photographs of
broken leg of
burial of
capture of
celebrity of
childhood of
crosses Potomac River
death of
diary of
end of war and
engagement to Lucy Hale
escape of
guns of
hatred for Lincoln
horse of
infamy
kidnap plot
leap onstage after shooting
Lincoln shot by
at Lincoln’s last speech
at Lincoln’s second inauguration
a martyr in the Confederate South
in Maryland swamps
personality of
physical appearance
plans assassination of Lincoln
reward poster for
search for
Stanton connection
views on slavery
Washington residence
as womanizer

Booth, Junius Brutus
Booth, Mary Ann Holmes
Boston
Bowie knife
Brockenbrough, John
Bryantown, Maryland
Buckingham, John
Bull Run
Bunker, George W.
Burns, Francis
Burroughs, Joseph

Caesar, Julius
Canada
Capitol Building

construction

Chandler, Theodore
Chandler, William
Chase, Salmon P.
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
City Point, Virginia
Civil War

Antietam
casualties
destruction of Richmond
end of
Five Forks
High Bridge
last days of
Lee’s retreat
Lee’s surrender
Petersburg
Sayler’s Creek

Civil War Times
Clark, William
Cobb, Silas T.
Cody, Buffalo Bill
Coggeshall, Willliam
Colburn’s United Service Magazine
Colfax, Schuyler
Confederacy Black Thursday
Confederate army

desertions
destruction of Richmond
food shortages
High Bridge
last days of war
at Petersburg
retreat from Petersburg
Sayler’s Creek
surrender of

Confederate Secret Service.
See also specific members
Confederate White House
Conger, Everton
conspiracy against Lincoln. See assassination conspiracy; kidnap plot
Constitution, U.S.
Corbett, Boston

Booth killed by

Corry, John
Crane, Charles H.
Crockett, Davy
Crook, William

life after Lincoln’s death

Custer, George Armstrong

Battle of Little Bighorn

Danville, march to
Davis, Jefferson
Dearing, James
Deery’s tavern
Deringer pistol
Devin, Thomas
“Dixie,”
Dry Tortugas

Eckert, Thomas T.
Eglon, king of Moab
Egypt
Emancipation Proclamation
Ewell, Richard

Farmville, Virginia
Ferguson, Jim
Fillmore, Millard
Five Forks, Battle of
flag, American

thirty-six-star

Fletcher, John
Forbes, Charles
Ford, James
Ford, John
Ford’s Theatre

Booth approaches state box
Booth arrives at
Booth leaps onstage after shooting
as Booth’s mailing address
1862 fire
facilities
Lincoln at
Lincoln removed from
Lincoln shot in
Our American Cousin
post-assassination
state box

Fort Jefferson
Fort Sumter
Fredericksburg

Garfield, James
Garrett, John
Garrett, Richard
Garrett farm

Booth captured at

Georgetown Aqueduct
Gettysburg
Gifford, James J.
gold
Gordon, John B.
Grand Illumination
Grant, Julia

Mary Lincoln disliked by

Grant, Ulysses S.

death of
declines invitation to Ford’s Theatre
last days of war
leadership style
Lee’s surrender and
Lincoln and
marriage of
Meade and
memoirs of
at Petersburg
physical appearance of
pincer movement
in postwar Washington, D.C.
as president

Great Britain
Greenback Saloon
Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore
Griffiths, Jabes
Grover’s Theatre
guerrilla warfare
guns

habeas corpus, writ of
Hale, John Parker
Hale, Lucy Lambert

engagement to Booth

Hamlin, Hannibal
Hancock, Winfield Scott
hanging of co-conspirators
Hansell, Emerick
Harper’s Weekly, re-creation of
Harlan, James
Harris, Clara
Harrison, Benjamin
Harvard University
Hawk, Harry
Hay, John
Herndon House hotel
Herold, David

arrest of

capture of
escape of
hanging of
role in assassination plot
search for
trial of
High Bridge, battle for
Hill, A. P.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
horses

getaway

Illinois

Lincoln’s funeral train to

Indians

Jackson, Andrew

assassination attempt against

Jackson, Stonewall
Jefferson, Thomas
J. J. Chaffey Company
John S. Ide
Johnson, Andrew

assassination plot against
death of
impeachment hearings
inaugural speech
as president
Reconstruction policies
as vice president

Johnston, Joe
Jones, Thomas

role in Booth’s escape

Juniper
(gunboat)

Keene, Laura

death of
Lincoln’s last hours and

Keim, W. R.
Kentucky
Key, Francis Scott
Key, Philip Barton
kidnap plot

abandoned by Booth
see also
assassination conspiracy

King, Albert
King, Prescott
Kirkwood House hotel
Knights of the Golden Circle

Lamon, Ward Hill
Lawrence, Richard
Leale, Charles
Lee, Custis
Lee, Fitzhugh
Lee, Robert E.

death of
last days of war
pardon of
at Petersburg
retreat from Petersburg
surrender at Appomattox

Lincoln, Abraham assassination of.
See
assassination conspiracy

autopsy on
childhood of
Civil War and
death of
deathbed of
death threats and premonitions
end of war and
at Ford’s Theatre
funeral of
Gettysburg Address
Grant and
last hours after shooting
last known photograph of
last speech of
mail of
marriage of
medical care of
physical appearance
religious views
removed from Ford’s Theatre
in Richmond
second inaugural
second term
security measures for
shot by Booth
Stanton and
telegrams and

Lincoln, Edward
Lincoln, Mary Todd

death of
at Ford’s Theatre
life after Lincoln’s death
Lincoln’s last hours after shooting
Lincoln’s funeral and
marriage of
mental instability of
pension of
physical appearance

Lincoln, Robert Todd

death of
death of his father
life after his father’s death

Lincoln, Tad
Lincoln, Willie
Lincoln Conspiracy, The
(movie)
Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Little Bighorn, Battle of
Long Bridge
Longstreet, James “Pete,”

death of

Lovett, Alexander

Maddox, Jim
Malvern,
USS
Manassas
Marshall, Charles
Maryland

as hideout for conspirators
swamps

Mason-Dixon Line
Matthews, John
McKinley, William
McLean, Wilmer
Meade, George
Metropolitan Police
Metz, Lucinda
Mexican War
Mexico
Military Telegraph Corps
Montauk,
USS

co-conspirators imprisoned on

Montreal
Mudd, Samuel

arrest of
role in Booth’s escape
trial and sentence of

Mudd, Sarah

Nanjemoy, Maryland
National Detective Police
National Hotel
National Intelligencer

Booth’s letter to

Navy Yard Bridge
Naylor’s stable
Neff, Ray
Newport, Rhode Island
newspapers

on assassination and search
re-creation of
Harper’s Weekly
on trial of co-conspirators

New York
Nicolay, John
North Carolina