pt. 1. The plot -- pt. 2. The deed -- pt. 3. The penalty -- Appendices. Feeling against Lincoln -- Booth in Canada -- Confederate complicity -- The Leenea letters -- Dr. Mudd's statement -- Rockville lecture of John H. Surratt -- The possibility of capture -- John Y. Beall -- Lincoln's last journey -- Lincoln's last speech -- Lincoln's forebodings of a tragic death -- Lincoln and the Negro messenger -- Dana and Thompson -- Mr. George Ashmum -- "Our American cousin" -- Atzerodt's statement -- The trial of John Surratt -- Major Rathbone's statement -- Harry Hawk's account -- Affidavit of Miss Harris -- Booth in Boston -- Letter of William T. Clark -- Dispatches of the night -- Statement of Mr. Field, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury -- Southern horror of Booth's deed -- The awards -- Trial attendance -- Spangler's statement -- Mrs. Surratt and John Nothey -- John P. Brophy -- The Holt-Johnson controversy -- Johnson's order for the execution of Payne, Atzerodt, Herold, and Mrs. Surratt -- Johnson's remark about "The nest that hatched the egg" -- Johnson's denial of habeas corpus writ to Mrs. Surratt Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Oakleaf, J. Lincoln bibliography Book, cloth; frontispiece 18