Author:
Pitch, Anthony.
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:Hanover, N.H. : Steerforth Press, c2008.
Descriptionxviii, 493 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Note:"Lincoln shall not pass through Baltimore alive" -- A presidential envelope marked 'assassination' -- "An excellent chance to kill the president!" -- "The last speech he will ever make" -- "Like Banquo's goat, it will not down" -- "The president is shot! -- "A singular night of horrors" -- They have killed Papa dead! -- "An autopsy and embalming in the White House" -- A visceral preference for vengeance -- "I am right in the justness of my cause" -- Escape in the dead of night -- "Betrayed into the hands of the government" -- "Keep an eye on Mrs. Surratt's house" -- "We know as much of your operations as the Almighty" -- A funeral surpassing all others in solemnity -- Escape -- "You must get him across" -- "I don't want to know anything about you" -- "I am worth just $175,000 to the man who captures me" -- "Tell my mother I die for my country" -- A secret burial at midnight -- "What my imagination pictured the Inquisition to have been" -- Weeks of deprivation and solitude -- "The trial concluded at last" -- "The posse comitatus of the court is not able to overcome armies" -- "I could have jumped upon the shoulders of each as they hung" -- "A perfect hell" -- "Why this fight, and why this concealment?" -- Epilogue : the scramble for rewards.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-482) and index.
