5 “A perfect Sunday” Constance Cary Harrison, Recollections Grave and Gay (New York: Scribner’s, 1911), 207.
5 “On Sunday, the 2d of April” Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (New York: D. Appleton, 1881), 2:668. Hereafter cited as Rise and Fall.
6 “I see no prospect of doing more than holding our position” Robert E. Lee, The Wartime Papers of Robert E. Lee, ed. Clifford Dowdey (New York: Da Capo Press), 924.
7 “I happened to sit in the rear” Harrison, Recollections Grave and Gay, 207.
7 “the people of Richmond had been too long” Davis, Rise and Fall, 2:667. 7 “Before dismissing the congregation” Harrison, Recollections Grave and Gay, 207.
7 “On the sidewalk outside the church” Harrison, Recollections Grave and Gay, 207-8.
8 “About 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 2d, a strange agitation” Clement Sulivane, “The Fall of Richmond: The Evacuation,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, eds. Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Buel (New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1956), 4:725.
8 “I went to my office and assembled the heads” Davis, Rise and Fall, 2:667.
9 “My own papers” Davis, Rise and Fall, 2:667.
9 “By this time the report that Richmond was to be evacuated” Davis, Rise and Fall, 2:667.
10 “He said for the future his headquarters must be in the field” Varina Howell Davis, Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir by His Wife (New York: Belford, 1890), 2:575.
Hereafter cited as A Memoir. 10 “Very averse to flight” Varina Davis, A Memoir, 2:575. 10 “I have confidence in your capacity” Varina Davis, A Memoir, 2:575. 10 “If I live” Varina Davia, A Memoir, 2:575.
10 “I do not expect to survive the destruction of constitutional liberty” Varina Davis, A Memoir, 2:575.
11 “All women like bric-a-brac” Varina Davis, A Memoir, 2:576.
11 “They may be exposed to inconvenience or outrage” Varina Davis, A Memoir, 2:576.
11 “He showed me how to load, aim, and fire” Varina Davis, A Memoir, 2:576.
11 “Col. Brown will please order these cartridges” Lynda Lasswell Crist, ed., The Papers of Jefferson Davis (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971-2008), 11:481. Hereafter cited as Papers.
12 “You can at least, if reduced to the last extremity” Varina Davis, A Memoir, 2:576.
12 “Leaving the house as it was, and taking only our clothing” Varina Davis, A Memoir, 2:576.
12 “You cannot remove anything in the shape of food” Varina Davis, A Memoir, 2:576.
12 “Mr. Davis almost gave way” Varina Davis, A Memoir, 2:577.
13 “The movement of Gen. Grant to Dinwiddie” Robert E. Lee, Lee’s Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862-1865, ed. Douglas Southall Freeman (1915; New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1957), 358-60.
14 “The question is often asked of me” Crist, Papers, 11:493.
14 “My best hope was that Sherman while his army was worn” Crist, Papers, 11:489.
15 “Arrived here safely very kindly treated” Crist, Papers, 11:491.
16 “The progress of our arms” Abraham Lincoln, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1952), 8:332-33. Hereafter cited as Collected Works.
17 “During this interview I inquired of the President” William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman (New York: Appleton, 1887), 2:326.
18 “I hope you will stay to see it out” Lincoln, Collected Works, 8:378.
20 “Dispatches frequently coming in” Lincoln, Collected Works, 8:382.
20 “All that Sabbath day the trains came and went” Sulivane, “The Fall of Richmond,” 725.
22 “To move to-night will involve the loss of many valuables” Crist, Papers, 11:499.
22 “Your telegram recd. I think it will be necessary” Lee, Lee’s Dispatches, 375.
22 “Mrs. Lincoln: At 4:30 p.m. to-day General Grant telegraphs” Lincoln, Collected Works, 8:383
23 “I think it absolutely necessary that we should abandon our position” Lee, Wartime Papers, 925.
23 “It is absolutely necessary that we should abandon our position” Lee, Wartime Papers, 926.
24 “Allow me to tender you, and all with you” Lincoln, Collected Works, 8:383.
24 “The furniture in the executive mansion it would be well to pack” Crist, Papers, 11:500.
25 “This was the saddest trip I had ever made” Francis Richard Lubbock, Six Decades in Texas; or, Memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock, Governor of Texas in War Time, 1861-1863, ed. Cadwell Walton Raines (Austin: B. C. Jones, 1900), 563.
25 “Richmond would be isolated, and it could not have been defended” Davis, Rise and Fall, 2:668.
26 “the rabble who stood ready to plunder” Stephen R. Mallory, “Last Days of the Confederate Government,” McClure’s Magazine 26, no. 2 (Dec. 1900), 102.
27 “While waiting at the depot” William Harwar Parker, Recollections of a Naval Officer, 1841-1865, rev. ed., ed. Craig L. Symonds (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883; Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1985), 375. Citations are to the Naval Institute Press edition.
27 “Not only inside, but on top” Parker, Recollections, 374-75.
28 “submit to the invading army” John H. Reagan, Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War, ed. Walter Flavius McCaleb (New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1906), 197.
28 “left but small opportunity” Reagan, Memoirs, 198.
28 “Silence reigned over the fugitives” Mallory, “Last Days,” 104.
28 “The terrible reverses” Mallory, “Last Days,” 104.
29 “It was near midnight” Reagan, Memoirs, 198.
29 “another soul to enter” Parker, Recollections, 375.
29 “The scenes at the depot were a harbinger” Parker, Recollections, 376.
30 “By nightfall all the flitting shadows” Harrison, Recollections, 208.
30 “ominous groups of ruffians” Sulivane, “The Fall of Richmond,” 725.
30 “About 2 o’clock on the morning” Thomas Thatcher Graves, “The Fall of Richmond: The Occupation,” in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, eds. Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Buel, 4:726.
30 “I saw a government on wheels” John S. Wise, The End of an Era (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899), 415.
31 “By daylight, on the 3d” Sulivane, “The Fall of Richmond,” 726.
32 “As we neared the city the fires” Graves, “The Fall of Richmond,” 726-27.
32 “I looked over at the President’s house” Harrison, Recollections, 214.
32 “A young woman has just passed” Harrison, Recollections, 218.
33 “His hope and good humor” Mallory, “Last Days,” 104.
33 “adroit economy” Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.
33 “They were quiet” Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.
33 “An earnest, enthusiastic, big-hearted man” Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.
33 “As the morning advanced” Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.
34 “This morning Gen. Grant reports” Lincoln, Collected Works, 8:384.
35 “The news spread like wildfire through Washington” Noah Brooks, Washington in Lincoln’s Time (New York: The Century Co., 1895; New York: Georgia University Press, 1971), 218. Citations are to the Georgia University Press edition.
36 “I congratulate you” Lincoln, Collected Works, 8:384.
37 “Heads of departments” Mallory, “Last Days,” 103.
38 “Yours received. Thanks for your caution” Lincoln, Collected Works, 8:385.
39 “The day of jubilee did not end” Brooks, Washington in Lincoln’s Time, 221.
39 “The ending of the first day of occupation” Harrison, Recollections, 214.
40 “more or less” Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.
41 “April 4 and the succeeding four days” Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.
41 “Some asserted, upon the faith” Mallory, “Last Days,” 105.
41 “Thus were passed five days” Mallory, “Last Days,” 106.
42 “Thank God that I have lived” David Dixon Porter, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885), 294.
42 “Here we were in a solitary boat” Porter, Incidents, 294.
44 “Admiral, this brings to mind” Porter, Incidents, 294.
44 “The street along the river-front” Porter, Incidents, 295.
44 “There was a small house” Porter, Incidents, 295.
45 “Don’t kneel to me” Porter, Incidents, 295.
45 “Oh, all ye people clap” Porter, Incidents, 296.
45 “The crowd immediately became” Porter, Incidents, 297.
46 “My poor friends, you are free” Porter, Incidents, 298.
46 “We will pull it down!” Porter, Incidents, 298.
47 “Is it far” Graves, “The Fall of Richmond,” 726.
47 “At the Davis House” Graves, “The Fall of Richmond,” 726.
47 “look of unutterable weariness” Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), 2:790.
51 “Abraham Lincoln, his hand and pen” Lincoln, Collected Works, 1:1.
54 “If slavery is not wrong” Lincoln, Collected Works, 7:282.
57 “Ann M. Rutledge is” The copy of Kirkham’s Grammar inscribed by Lincoln is in the collection of the Library of Congress.
62 “At length he asked me” Graves, “The Fall of Richmond,” 728.
62 “quite a small affair compared with” Porter, Incidents, 302.
63 “news and book agents” Carte de visite in author’s collection.
63 “President Lincoln replied” Graves, “The Fall of Richmond,” 728.
64 “Don’t drown, Massa Abe” Burlingame, Lincoln, 2:792.
64 “I walked alone on the street” Burlingame, Lincoln, 2:792.
66 “The baggage cars” Crist, Papers, 11:515.
67 “Please give me” Crist, Papers, 11:501. Official Records of the War of the Rebellion I, 47, part 3. Hereafter cited as OR.
67 “Selma has fallen” Crist, Papers, 11:502.
68 “My Brigade was lost” Crist, Papers, 11:502.
68 “To the people of the Confederacy” Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers, and Speeches, ed. Dunbar Rowland (Jackson, MS: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1923), 6:529-31. Cited hereafter as Jefferson Davis.
71 “My Dear Wife” Crist, Papers, 11:504.
73 “We need your personal sanction” Lincoln, Collected Works, 8:387.
73 “In my letter of yesterday I gave you all of my prospects” Crist, Papers, 11:510.
73 “I took a long walk” Eliza Frances Andrews, The War-time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865 (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1908), 135. Cited hereafter as War-time Journal.
74 “I shall be tonight at Farmville” Lee, Wartime Papers, 931.
74 “The news of Richmond came upon me” Crist, Papers, 11:514.
75 “Lieut. Gen. Grant” Lincoln, Collected Works, 8:392.
77 “The dispute made it all the way” Lincoln, Collected Works, 8:405-6.
77 “Your dispatch of the 6th” Crist, Papers, 11:526.
79 “Most people were sleeping soundly” Brooks, Washington in Lincoln’s Time, 223.
79 “Guns are firing” Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 2:278.
81 “After four years of arduous service” Lee, Wartime Papers, 935.
81 “fell upon the ears of all” Mallory, “Last Days,” 107.
83 “We set to work at once” Burton N. Harrison, “The Capture of Jefferson Davis,” Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine 27 (Nove. 1883), 131.
83 “To Mayor J. M. Walker” Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 6:543.
84 “Of course, recalled Harrison” Harrison, “Capture,” 131.
85 “Much rain had fallen” Mallory, “Last Days,” 107.
86 “I remarked on the freshness” Harrison, “Capture,” 131.
86 “At ten o’clock, Cabinet officers and other chiefs” Mallory, “Last Days,” 107.
86 “That young lady” Harrison, “Capture,” 132.
87 “A sharp explosion” Harrison, “Capture,” 132.
88 “No provision had been made” Mallory, “Last Days,” 107.
88 “[The owners] of the house” Harrison, “Capture,” 132.
88 “The people in that part of North Carolina” Harrison, “Capture,” 132.
89 “Its distinguished hosts” Mallory, “Last Days,” 107.
90 “The Secty. Of War did not join me at Danville” Crist, Papers, 11:531.
91 “Mr. President: It is with pain that I announce” Lee, Wartime Papers, 935-36.
91 “how vast our resources” Crist, Papers, 11:540.
92 “After reading it, he handed it without comment” Crist, Papers, 11:542, note 2.
92 “The rumors of a raid on Charlotte” Crist, Papers, 11:540-41.
93 “The Capitol made a magnificent display” Benjamin Brown French, Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee’s Journal, 1828-1870, eds. Donald B. Cole and John McDonough (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1989), 468.
93 “Everything was bright and splendid” John Rhodehamel and Louise Taper, eds., “Right or Wrong, God Judge Me”: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997), 144.
94 “Dear Winnie I will come to you if I can” Crist, Papers, 11:541.
94 “I thank you for the assurance” Lincoln, Collected Works, 8:413.
100 “A man running down 10th Street” Seaton Munroe, “Recollections of Lincoln’s Assassination,” North American Review (Apr. 1896), 424.
101 “Finding it impossible to go further” W. Emerson Reck, A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1987), 128.
101 “I was at Grover’s” Transcript in the collection of the Surratt Society, James O. Hall Research Center.
102 “We were about getting into bed” Ralph G. Newman, “The Mystery Occupant’s Eyewitness Account of the Death of Abraham Lincoln,” Chicago History (Spring 1975).
103 “When we arrived to the street” Charles A. Leale, Address Delivered Before the Commandery of the State of New York, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (New York: self-published, 1909).
103 “Where can we take him?” Reck, A. Lincoln, 128.
103 “I saw a man” Leale, Address Delivered.
103 “They carried him on out” Newman, “Mystery Occupant’s.”
104 “My balcony being twelve or fourteen feet above” Reck, A. Lincoln, 129.
105 “Take us to your best room” Reck, A. Lincoln, 128.
105 “When the president was first laid in bed” Leale, Address Delivered.
106 “She was perfectly frantic.” Newman, “Mystery Occupant’s.”
106 “I went to Mrs. Lincoln” Leale, Address Delivered.
108 “The first person I met” Ralph Borreson, When Lincoln Died (New York: Appleton-Century, 1965).
109 “about twenty-five minutes” Charles Sabin Taft, “Abraham Lincoln’s Last Hours,” Century Magazine 45 (February 1893), 634-36. Charles Sabin Taft, Abraham Lincoln’s Last Hours: From the Note-book of Charles Sabin Taft, M.D., an Army Surgeon Present at the Assassination, Death, and Autopsy (Chicago: Blackcat Press, 1934).
109 “I was introduced to Dr. Stone” Leale, Address Delivered.
109 “It was owing to Dr. Leale’s quick judgement” Charles Sabin Taft, “Abraham Lincoln’s Last Hours.”
109 “At about 11p.m. the right eye” Leale, Address Delivered.
111 “The giant sufferer” Borreson, When Lincoln Died, 41.
112 “he had last night the usual dream” Welles, Diary, 2:282.
113 “On a common bedstead” Transcript in the collection of the Surratt Society.
114 “Mr. Lincoln is assassinated in the theater” Storey and Sumner bio.
115 “Charles Sumner, they have murdered my husband” Jeremiah Chaplin, J. D. Chaplin, and William Claflin, The Life of Charles Sumner (Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1874), 417.
116 “A stroke from Heaven” Reck, A. Lincoln, 138.
117 “The Hospital Steward” Leale, Address Delivered.
117 “Mrs. Lincoln accompanied by” Leale, Address Delivered.
117 “She implored him” Reck, A. Lincoln, 139.
118 “I awoke and saw that the streetlamps” French, Witness, 469.
118 “As morning dawned” Leale, Address Delivered.
119 “Are not the doings of last night dreadful” French, Witness, 469-70.
119 “I took Mrs. Lincoln by the hand” French, Witness, 470.
119 “Mrs. Welles was not up” French, Witness, 470.
120 “Her last visit was most painful” Reck, A. Lincoln, 148.
120 “pierced every heart” Reck, A. Lincoln, 147.
120 “Just as the day was struggling” Transcript in the collection of the Surratt Society.
120 “As Mrs. Lincoln sat on a chair” Reck, A. Lincoln, 148.
122 “It was evident to every dispassionate mind” Stephen R. Mallory, “Last Days of the Confederate Government…Last Cabinet Conferences and Negotiations for Johnston’s Surrender,” McClure’s Magazine, vol. xvi, December 1901, 242. Hereafter cited as “Last Days,” part 2.
122 “Heavy rains had recently fallen” Harrison, “Capture,” 134.
124 “immediately after death” Charles Sabin Taft, “Abraham Lincoln’s Last Hours,” 636. Charles Sabin Taft, Abraham Lincoln’s Last Hours.
125 “1 horsehair covered sofa” George Olszewski, House Where Lincoln Died: Furnishing Study (Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1967), 42.
126 “I stepped to the window and saw the coffin” Borreson, When Lincoln Died, 46
127 “A dismal rain was falling” Charles Sabin Taft, “Abraham Lincoln’s Last Hours,” 636. Charles Sabin Taft, Abraham Lincoln’s Last Hours.
127 “Wandering aimlessly up F Street” Brooks, Washington in Lincoln’s Time, 231-32.
130 “Even then I could fancy the relic hunter” Munroe, “Recollections,” 433-34.
130 “I joined Mr. Petersen’s son” Ferguson.
130 “make it the center and outstanding part of the large painting” Reck, A. Lincoln, 129.
131 “At nine o’clock we took her home” Surratt Society.
132 “As I started to go down the stairs” Borreson, When Lincoln Died, 53.
133 “I went immediately to the room” French, Witness, 470.
134 “The room…contained but little furniture” Edward Curtis, “Was at the Lincoln Autopsy…Dr. Edward Curtis Describes the Scene at the White House—Lincoln’s Brain and Physique—Finding of the Bullet—An Account Not Before Printed,” Sun, April 12, 1903, sec. 4, 4. Cited hereafter as “Lincoln Autopsy.”
135 “Dr. Woodward and I proceeded to open the head” Curtis, “Lincoln Autopsy.”
135 “During the post-mortem examination” Charles Sabin Taft, “Abraham Lincoln’s Last Hours,” 636. Charles Sabin Taft, Abraham Lincoln’s Last Hours.
136 “Silently, in one corner of the room, I prepared the brain” Curtis, “Lincoln Autopsy.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 hardest 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.
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.
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.