Lincoln's Assassins

The late Roy Z. Chamlee, Jr., lived in Greenville, South Carolina.

• Table of ContentsVolume 1Preface      I “Blood, Blood, All Around”      II Two Horsemen Riding Very Fast      III While the President Still Breathes      IV Someone to Fill the Vacuum      V The Man Called Mars      VI “. . . Find the Murderer”      VII Easter Sunday, 1865      VIII First Confessions      IX The Honor of a Lady      X A View of Swampoodle      XI “Communication with Jeff Davis”      XII Unanswered Questions      XIII Lamentations for a Modern Moses      XIV “. . . To Get Him Across”      XV The Conspiracy Puzzle      XVI Conflicting Evidence      XVII “Tell My Mother I Died for My Country”      XVIII Filling in the Gaps      XIX “I Do Not Know, Sir—I Declare I Do Not Know”      XX “Any Statement You Make Will Be Used”      XXI The Final List      XXII Care That They Not Escape      XXIII “. . . And Others Unknown”      XXIV “A Horrid Sight”      XXV Abhorrence of All Things Secret      XXVI Justice in Epaulets      XXVII On Trial but Not in Chains      XXVIII A Large Boot, Slit Down the Side      XXIX “We Are the Assassins of the President”      XXX Confessions, Blockade-Runners and Secret Ciphers      Volume 2XXXI “Yes, That’s the Man”      XXXII Empty Sleeves Dangling in the Spring Air      XXXIII In Defense of Mary Surratt      XXXIV A Loyal Citizen?      XXXV A Growing Weariness      XXXVI “Where Is Ma?”      XXXVII Guilt and Insanity      XXXVIII Rebel Complicity?      XXXIX What He Knew and When      XL “. . . What a Phenomenon He Was”      XLI Education for Murder      XLII After Mature Consideration      XLIII Death Cells      XLIV Thirteen Steps      XLV Dry Tortugas      XLVI “An Absurdity Unsurpassed”      XLVII Impeaching the Impeachers      XLVIII “The Son Is Here Before You”      XLIX Memories of the Terrible Spring      L The Stretch of Darkening Folds      Epilogue      Chapter Notes      Selected Bibliography      Index

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