Title The Lincoln Assassination : Crime and Punishment, Myth and Memory / edited by Harold Holzer, Craig L. Symonds, and Frank J. Williams

Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2014 ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (277 pages) Series North's Civil War North's Civil War. Contents Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Lincoln�s Deathbed in Art and Memory -- Abraham Lincoln�s New York City Funeral -- Not Everybody Mourned Lincoln�s Death -- Lincoln�s Chief Avenger: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt -- The Lincoln Assassination in Law and Lore -- Writing History in a Vacuum -- ��Let the Stain of Innocent Blood Be Removed from the Land�� -- Process versus Truth in the Case of the Lincoln Conspiracy -- The Martyr and the Myth -- Contributors -- The Lincoln Forum -- Index Summary Annotation The assassination of president Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and intense interest from scholars, writers, and armchair historians alike, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. At the end of the Lincoln bicentennial year, and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial, the leading scholars of Lincoln and his murder offer in one volume their latest studies and arguments about the assassination, its aftermath, the extraordinary public reaction (which was more complex than has been previously believed), and the iconography that Lincoln's murder and deification inspired. Contributors also offer the most up-to-date accounts of the parallel legal event of the summer of 1865 - the relentless pursuit, prosecution, and punishment of the conspirators. Everything from graphic tributes to religious sermons, to spontaneous outbursts on the streets of the nation's cities, to emotional mass-mourning at carefully organized funerals, as well as the imposition of military jurisprudence to try the conspirators, is examined in the light of fresh evidence and insightful analysis. The contributors are among the finest scholars who are studying Lincoln's assassination. All have earned well-deserved reputations for the quality of their research, their thoroughness, their originality, and their writing. In addition to the editors, contributors include Thomas R. Turner, Edward Steers Jr., Michael W. Kauffman, Thomas P. Lowry, Richard E. Sloan, Elizabeth D. Leonard, and Richard Nelson Current Notes Print version record Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Death and burial. SUBJECT Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Death and burial Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 fast Subject Assassins -- United States -- History -- 19th century Conspiracies -- United States -- History -- 19th century Death and burial of a person Assassination Assassins Conspiracies United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Symonds, Craig L., editor Williams, Frank J., editor ISBN 9780823232284 082323228X

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