The Lincoln Assassination Encyclopedia

Just over a month after delivering his second inaugural address and as the bloody Civil War was finally drawing to a close, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while attending a play at Ford's Theatre on the evening of April 14, 1865. In the aftermath of Lincoln's murder there was a massive manhunt that culminated in the killing of the assassin John Wilkes Booth and the arrest, trial, and execution or imprisonment of the other conspirators. The cast of characters, locations, and events surrounding the assassination of Lincoln are admirably sorted out in this superb encyclopedia. While there are a great...