LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. “Bloody Crimes” carte de visite of Columbia and her eagle xiii
2. Senator Jefferson Davis on the eve of the Civil War 4
3. Fall of Richmond paper flag 35
4. Currier & Ives print of Richmond in flames 40
5. Abraham Lincoln oil portrait, as he appeared in 1865 43
6. The Petersen House 104
7. Sketch of Lincoln on his deathbed 112
8. The empty bed, just after Lincoln died 128
9. Bloody pillow 129
10. “The President Is Dead” broadside 132
11. Diagram of the bullet’s path through Lincoln’s brain 134
12. The bullet that killed Lincoln 135
13. Allegorical print of Booth trapped inside the bullet 137
14. Portrait engraving of George Harrington 142
15. Invitation to Lincoln’s funeral 187
16. “Post Office Department” silk ribbon, April 19 funeral 190
17. Lincoln’s hearse, Washington, D.C. 191
18. Photograph of General E. D. Townsend 203
19. War Department pass for Lincoln funeral train 207
20. Lincoln’s funeral car 211
21. Silk mourning ribbon of the U.S. Military Railroad 213
22. President Lincoln’s hearse, Philadelphia 221
23. The New York funeral procession 226
24. Lincoln in coffin, New York City 230
25. Memorial arch, Sing Sing, New York 233
26. Viewing pavilion, Cleveland, Ohio 253
27. Terre Haute & Richmond Railroad timetable 260
28. Photograph of memorial arch, Chicago 264
29. Lincoln’s old law office; Springfield, May, 1865 272
30. A map of the Abraham Lincoln funeral train route 275
31. Harper’s Weekly woodcut of burial in Springfield, Illinois 283
32. The first reward poster for Jefferson Davis 297
33. A map of Jefferson Davis’s escape route 300
34. Photograph of Davis in the suit he wore at capture 310
35. $360,000 reward poster for Davis 319
36. Three caricatures depicting Davis in a dress 323
37. The raglan, shawl, and spurs Davis wore on the day of capture 328
38. Print of Davis ridiculed in prison 334
39. Sketch of Davis in his cell 335
40. Lincoln’s home draped in bunting, May 24, 1865 339
41. Davis as a caged hyena wearing a ladies’ bonnet 343
42. “The True Story…” print ridiculing Davis 346
43. Oil portrait of Jefferson Davis, ca. 1870s 360
44. Davis and family on their porch at Beauvoir, Mississippi 362
45. Oscar Wilde–inscribed photograph 364
46. Jefferson Davis late in life at Beauvoir 377
47. Davis lying in state, New Orleans, 1889 379
48. A map of the Davis funeral train route 380
49. Davis’s New Orleans funeral procession, 1889 384
50. Raleigh, North Carolina, floral display and procession, 1893 385
51. The ghosts of Willie and Abraham haunting Mary Lincoln 389
52. Photographs of porcelain Lincoln memorial obelisk 395
53. The site of Jefferson Davis’s capture, near Irwinville, Georgia 399
54. Jefferson Davis’s library at Beauvoir, Mississippi 403