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.
280 “The troops are on the west side” Crist, Papers, 11:583.
283 “Far more eyes have gazed upon the face” Coggeshall, Journeys, 308.
283 “Standing, as we do today, by his coffin” Coggeshall, Journeys, 319.
284 “Evergreen carpeted the stone floor” Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, 4:413.
288 “I am in such a state of excitement” Andrews, Journal, 204-6. 288 “It is with deep regret” Crist, Papers, 11:584. Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 6:586-87.
288 “After some delay at Washington” Reagan, Memoirs, 212.
289 “The President left town about ten o’clock” Andrews, Journal, 206. 289 “The talk now is” Andrews, Journal, 217.
289 “This, I suppose, is the end” Andrews, Journal, 217. 289 “Twenty days after the terrible night” Coggeshall, Journeys, 325. 294 “Mr. Lincoln, on his way from Springfield to Washington” Townsend, Anecdotes, 243.
301 “Fully realizing that so large a party” Lubbock, Six Decades, 571.
302 “we halted on a small stream near Irwinville” Lubbock, Six Decades, 571.
302 “We had all now agreed” Harrison, “Capture,” 142.
302 “The President notified us to be ready” Reagan, Memoirs, 218.
303 “After getting that promise from the President” Harrison, “Capture,” 142.
303 “Time wore on” Lubbock, Six Decades, 571.
10: “BY GOD, YOU ARE THE MEN WE ARE LOOKING FOR”
304 “From thence we proceeded to a blind woods” OR, 49, I, 532.
305 “Impressing a negro as a guide” OR, 49, I, 532.
305 “[J]ust as the earliest dawn appeared” OR, 49, I, 536.
307 “Colonel, do you hear the firing?” Harrison, “Capture,” 142.
307 “As soon as one of them came within range” Harrison, “Capture,” 142.
307 “At this moment” W. T. Walthall, “The True Story of the Capture of Jefferson Davis,” Southern Historical Society Papers 5, no. 3 (Mar. 1878).
307 “We sprang immediately to our feet” Lubbock, Six Decades, 571.
308 “When this firing occurred the troops in our front” Reagan, Memoirs, 219.
308 “What does that mean? Have you any men” Harrison, “Capture,” 142.
309 “The Federal cavalry are upon us” Reagan, Memoirs, 220.
310 “Knowing he would be recognized” Chester Bradley, “Was Jefferson Davis Disguised as a Woman When Captured?” Journal of Mississippi History 36 (Aug. 1974), 243-68.
311 “As I started, my wife thoughtfully threw over my head” Varina Davis, A Memoir, 2:701-2.
311 “in a short time they were in possession of very nearly everything” Lubbock, Six Decades, 572.
312 “I emptied the contents of my haversack” Harrison, “Capture,” 144.
312 “This is a bad business” Walthall, “True Story,” 14.
314 “The hardes
t to bear of all the humiliations” Andrews, Journal, 238.
315 “As soon as the firing ceased I returned to camp” OR, 49, I, 536.
316 “I had been astonished to discover” Harrison, “Capture,” 144.
316 “The man who a few days before” Lubbock, Six Decades, 572.
316 “[S]he bore up with womanly fortitude” Lubbock, Six Decades, 573.
320 “We have not got your saddle bags” Reagan, Memoirs, 221.
322 “When we reached Macon” Reagan, Memoirs, 221.
323 “As one of the means of making the Confederate cause odious” Reagan, Memoirs, 221.
323 “When I came up from breakfast” French, Witness, 477.
324 “Intelligence was received this morning” Welles, Diary, 2:306.
324 “I am sitting in the President’s Office” Townsend, John Wilkes Booth, 57-58.
326 “I am glad to sit in his chair” Townsend, John Wilkes Booth, 62.
328 “Barnum is a shrewd businessman” Strong, Diary, 3:598.
330 “ample provision being made for the families” OR, 49, I, 516.
11: “LIVING IN A TOMB”
333 “They have him in his prison house” Lincoln, Collected Works, 2:403-7.
335 “Mrs. Mary Lincoln left the City on Monday evening” French, Witness, 479.
336 “[T]he great review of the returning armies” Welles, Diary, 2:310.
337 “I put a gilded eagle over the front door” French, Witness, 478.
346 “I hate the Yankees more and more” Andrews, Journal, 371.
349 “I am now permitted to write you” Crist, Papers, 12:13.
349 “With regret and apprehension I have heard” Crist, Papers, 12:44.
351 “Last Christmas we had a home” Crist, Papers, 12:80.
351 “I hope that you will not think me a rude little girl” Crist, Papers, 12:114.
352 “It is true that I have not made [Jefferson Davis]” OR, 914.
354 “The prison life by Dr. Craven” Crist, Papers, 12:153.
355 “I urged that the welfare of the whole country” Reagan, Memoirs, 231.
356 “poor Davis…wasted and careworn” Crist, Papers, 12:210.
357 “Last Friday [June 1], Hollywood was glorified with flowers” Crist, Papers, 12:214.
12: “THE SHADOW OF THE CONFEDERACY”
365 “I did not like the man” Strode, Tragic Years, 459-62.
366 “I have been compelled to prove General Sherman” Strode, Tragic Years, 473.
374 “Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens” Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 10:47.
375 “Permit me to cordially congratulate you” Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 10:72.
376 “The package containing all of our correspondence” Crist, Papers, 1:348.
377 “Dreams my dear Sarah we will agree” Crist, Papers, 1:345.
377 “The shadow of the Confederacy” Varina Howell Davis to Constance Cary Harrison, transcript in the collection of the author, courtesy of the Papers of Jefferson Davis.
INDEX
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Abbeville, Ga., 298, 299, 305, 330
Abbeville, S.C., 219, 250-51, 262-63, 266-67, 273-74, 280
abolitionists, xi, 53, 356
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, 392-93
Adams, John, 53
Adams, John Quincy, 167, 180
Agriculture Department, U.S., Farm Security Administration of, 399-400
Aiken’s Landing, 17
Alabama, 77, 366, 377, 383
Albany, N.Y., 199, 234, 235, 237, 241
Alexander, Dr., 138, 186, 286
Alexander, John, 285
Alexandria, Va., 163-65, 192, 208, 331, 382
American Museum, 345
American Revolution, 220-21
Anderson, Finley, 126
Anderson, Joseph Reid, 62
Anderson, S.C., 245
Andersonville Prison, 344, 350
Andrews, Eliza Frances, 73-74, 280, 288-89, 313-14, 346-47
Andrews, Garnett, 73, 288
Annapolis, Md., 214
Antietam, battle of, 112
Antietam, Md., 16, 156
Appomattox Court House, Va., 77-78, 82, 94, 147, 206, 361
Appomattox River, 6, 21-22
Arkansas, 123
Arlington National Cemetery, 396
Army, U.S., 53, 102, 140-41, 148, 192, 237, 354
Company D of the Seventy-fourth Regiment of, 242
First Wisconsin Cavalry of, 256, 298, 305-6, 313-14, 330
Fourth Michigan Cavalry of, 256, 298, 304-7, 310, 313-16, 321, 322, 330
frontier wars of, 361
Lincoln’s assassination and, 108
Lincoln’s funeral and, 150
Northern Department of Ohio in, 247
Second Cavalry Division, 297
Sixteenth New York Cavalry of, 314
Twelfth Veteran Reserve Corps of, 208
see also Union Army
Army of Georgia (Union), 336
Army of Northern Virginia (Confederate), 5, 13-14, 24, 26, 41, 67, 69, 74, 76
surrender of, 78, 79-80, 81-82, 91, 95, 102, 195, 197, 205-6, 224
Army of Tennessee (Confederate), 67
Army of the Potomac (Union), 176, 329-30, 336, 337
Army of the Tennessee (Union), 336
Army of the West (Union), 329-30
Arnold, Isaac N., 151
Asheville, N.C., 245
Ashmun, George, 158-59
Associated Press, 151
Atlanta, Ga., 3, 76, 279, 323, 371, 372, 383
Atlanta Constitution, 367, 370-71
Auburn, N.Y., 391
Augur, C. C., 116, 126, 150-51
Augusta, Ga., 245, 262
Bahamas, 122, 273
Baker, C., 126
Baker, Edward D., 167-68, 180
Ball’s Bluff, battle of, 167
Baltimore, Md., 98, 199, 203, 212-17, 218, 239, 346
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 208
Barnes, Joseph K., 108-9, 117, 133-34, 188, 354
Barnum, P. T., 327-29, 344-45
Barringer, Victor C., 122
Bates, Edward, 170
Bates, Lewis F., 194-97
Beauregard, P. G. T., 67, 87, 204
Beauvoir, 362-64, 362, 366-67, 371, 373, 375-76, 377, 382, 403
Hurricane Katrina and, 402-3
Bedell, Grace, 246
Beecher, Henry Ward, 239-40
Ben-Hur (Wallace), 240
Benjamin, Judah, 8, 32-33, 41, 86, 247, 273, 274
departure of, 278-79, 317
Benton, Thomas Hart, 52
Bersch, Carl, 104-5, 130
Bible, xii, 52, 60, 292
Biloxi, Miss., 362
Black Hawk, 58
Black Hawk War, 57-58
blacks:
in captured Richmond, 26, 39, 44-46, 64
Davis’s location reported to Union troops by, 256, 302
liberation of, 26, 32, 44-47
Lincoln honored by, 44-46, 64, 158, 217, 261, 340
Lincoln’s views on, 53-54, 61
New York draft riots and lynching of, 34
racism directed towards, 398
Reconstruction and, 361
voting rights for, 90
white supremacy and, 53-54, 60-61
Blair, Montgomery, 170
Bonham, Milledge L., 94
Booth, John Wilkes, xi, 34, 93, 96-97, 129, 130, 367
allegorical lithograph of, 136, 137
capture and death of, 238, 241, 243, 244, 287, 314, 317, 342
Confederate connection of, 121
conspirators of, 147, 196, 214, 215, 293
images of, 240
Lincoln’s assassination
by, 100-101, 106-7, 110, 136, 192, 276, 325
manhunt for, 111, 147, 204, 244, 268, 296-98, 317, 400
tried and executed co-conspirators of, 319, 340-41, 342-44, 343, 347, 356
wax figures of, 344, 392-93
Boston, Mass., 99
Boutell, Henry, 306
Boyd, Andrew, 125
Boyd, William H., 125
Bradford, A. W., 214, 217
Bradford, David, 72
Brady, Mathew, 189, 192, 205, 239
Bragg, Braxton, 14, 204
Breckinridge, John C., 76, 196, 204-5, 211-12, 247, 278-82, 288, 317
1860 presidential candidacy of, 53
Richmond evacuation and, 5-6, 9, 23-24, 26-27, 41, 72
Brierfield, 72, 248, 377
Broad River, S.C., 247, 250
Brooks, Daniel, 265
Brooks, Noah, 35, 39, 79, 127, 160, 166
Brooks, Preston, 115
Brooks Brothers, 139
Brough, John, 247
Brown, Charles, 138, 186, 281-82, 286
Brown, John, xi-xii, xiii, 356
Brown, Simeon B., 245
Browning, Orville Hickman, 133, 145, 153, 171, 200
Brown’s Ferry, 298
Buchanan, James, 6, 220
Buena Vista, battle of, 52, 309
Buffalo, N.Y., 199, 241-43
Bull Run, battle of, 112
Bureau of Military Justice, 296, 320
Burke, Francis, 95, 114
Burnside, Ambrose, 176
Burr, Frank A., 367, 371
Burt, Armistead, 266
Bush, George W., 400
Bush, Laura, 400
Cadwalader, George, 217
California, 167, 309
Cameron, Simon, 141, 158-59
Campbell, Givhan, 301
Campbell, John Archibald, 62
Canada, 243
Capitol, U.S., 49, 93, 119, 133, 143, 152, 336-37, 350
Davis statue in, 400, 401
funeral procession to, 149-50, 158, 190-93, 209, 286, 330, 382, 386, 400
Lincoln’s lying in state at, 140, 148, 150, 185, 197-200, 207-9, 215, 286, 391
Carolina Life Insurance Company, 359
Carroll, William T., family vault of, 171, 173
Cary, Constance, 5, 6-7, 32, 39-40, 312
marriage to Burton Harrison by, 6, 377, 390
Cattell, Harry P., 138
Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 336-37