EXPLANATION.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
Part I . ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN.
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
CHAPTER II. PREPARATIONS FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE PLOT.
CHAPTER III. ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT AND ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SECRETARY SEWARD.
CHAPTER IV. THE NEWS COMMUNICATED TO THE WORLD, AND ITS EFFECT.
CHAPTER V. UNRAVELLING THE PLOT. PURSUIT AND CAPTURE OF BOOTH AND HEROLD. DEATH OF BOOTH.
CHAPTER VI. UNRAVELLING THE CONSPIRACY. Arrest of Spangler, O'Laughlin, Atzerodt, Mudd, and Arnold.
CHAPTER VII. QUESTIONS PRELIMINARY TO THE TRIAL What Sort of Trial should be given, Civil or Military?
CHAPTER VIII. A MILITARY COMMISSION ITS NATURE, CONSTITUTION, DUTIES, AND JURISDICTION.
CHAPTER IX. CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMISSION, AND TRIAL.
CHAPTER X. EVIDENCE IN REGARD TO ATROCITIES NOT EMBRACED IN THE
CHAPTER XI. EVIDENCE PRESENTED BY THE GOVERNMENT TO SUSTAIN ITS CHARGE AND SPECIFICATIONS.
CHAPTER XII. THE GOVERNMENT WITNESSES AGAINST DAVIS AND HIS ASSOCIATES IN THIS CRIME.
CHAPTER XIII. A CRITICISM OF NICOLAY AND HAY.
CHAPTER XIV. JACOB THOMPSON'S BANK ACCOUNT. WHAT BECAME OF THE MONEY?
CHAPTER XV. THE CASE OF MRS. SURRATT.
CHAPTER XVI. FATHER WALTER.
CHAPTER XVII. CONCLUSION.
CHAPTER XVIII. FLIGHT AND CAPTURE OF JOHN H. SURRATT.
Part II. REVIEW OF THE TRIAL OF JOHN H. SURRATT.
CHAPTER I. INDICTMENT AND TRIAL.
CHAPTER II. A CRITICISM OF THE DEFENSE.
CHAPTER III. TREATMENT OF WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE BY THE COUNSEL
APPENDIX.
PREFACE TO APPENDIX.
ARGUMENT OF JOHN A. BINGHAM, Special Judge Advocate , IN REPLY
The Controversy between President Johnson and Judge Holt. A
FOOTNOTES
Transcriber's Note
Title: Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy
Trial of the Conspirators by a Military Commission and a Review of the Trial of John H. Surratt
Author: Thomas Mealey Harris
Language: English
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ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN
A
HISTORY OF THE GREAT CONSPIRACY
TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATORS BY A
MILITARY COMMISSION
AND A REVIEW OF THE TRIAL OF JOHN H. SURRATT
By T. M. HARRIS
Late Brigadier-General U. S. V. and Major-General by Brevet
A MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION
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