The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence by William C. Edwards,Edward Steers

By William C. Edwards,Edward Steers

On April 22, 1865, Brevet Colonel H. L. Burnett used to be assigned to go the research into the homicide of President Abraham Lincoln and the tried homicide of Secretary of country William H. Seward. Burnett orchestrated the gathering of millions of records for the army Commission’s trial of the conspirators. This deep archive of documentary evidence--consisting of letters, depositions, eyewitness bills, investigative experiences, and different documents--provides beneficial perception into the ancient, cultural, and judicial context of the research. just a fraction of the knowledge provided in those files ever made its means into the trial, and such a lot of it hasn't ever been quite simply obtainable. through proposing an annotated and listed transcription of those files, this quantity bargains major new entry to info at the occasions surrounding the assassination and an enormous new shop of social and political historical past of the Civil warfare era.

“With tears in my eyes i believe it your accountability to hold each insurgent stuck. i think as undesirable as though was once my very own guardian & can be one to volunteer to attempt & shoot each Southern guy. may well God have mercy at the man’s soul that performed this sort of deed.

With a lot admire for our Country,

I remain

Weeping”

--Anonymous letter, manhattan, April 15, 1865

“I comprehend sales space. He was once within the behavior of coming to my position to shoot. . . . He shot good, and practiced to shoot with accuracy in each attainable place. . . . He used to be a short shot; continuously silent, reticent.”

--Deposition of Benjamin Barker, Pistol Gallery proprietor

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