Description
Book SynopsisThe authoritative published record of the Lincoln assassination investigation
Trade Review"The work's value to a public audience [will be] . . . its reflection of the moment in American history. . . . A serious researcher gains assistance from the authors' knowledgeable footnotes. . . . This unique volume rides the Lincoln bicentennial publishing wave."--Booklist
“A gold mine of information and a major contribution to the literature on the Lincoln assassination. Highly recommended.”--Choice
“Edwards and Edward Steers have both spent years researching the Lincoln assassination, and have produced a voluminous, but handy transcription of the plethora of assassination documents compiled by the War Department.”--Journal of Illinois History
"The variety of material is breathtaking and immediately gives a sense of richness and range of its potential use for scholars."--
H-CivWar“I cannot overstate the contribution that this book makes to the field. Anyone who has ever struggled with nineteenth-century handwriting, often made even more difficult to read on microfilm, will be delighted to have these primary sources in hard copy. Anyone doing research on the assassination in the future will have to consult this book.”--Thomas Reed Turner, author of
Beware the People Weeping: Public Opinion and the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln“This is the documentary publication of the decade in the field of Lincoln assassination studies. The original records form a goldmine, with veins running off in many and unexpected directions--not merely assassination studies but also military law, politics, race relations, public mourning and hysteria, and civil liberties issues. There is no comparable printed book. Not even close.”--Terry Alford, editor of
John Wilkes Booth: A Sister’s Memoir"
The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence is the most superb and substantive primary source ever to be made available for any one interested in the murder of our sixteenth president. Coeditors William C. Edwards and Edward Steers Jr. have spent a lifetime sorting through the records in search of the truth surrounding this regicide, and this annotated edition is the culmination of their triumphant efforts."--Frank J. Williams, founding chair of The Lincoln Forum and Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix
List of Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Editorial Note xxix
THE DOCUMENTS 1
Documents are listed alphabetically by the addresser (or, where none exists, the subject of the document) and chronologically within the same addresser's file.
Letters written by investigator H. L. Burnett are segregated and begin on page 239. Index 1405
