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Abbreviations NL4RA Natlonal Archives Record Administration OR U.S. MTarDepartment, The Warof the Rebellton:4 Co?npzlatzorzof tl~e OficzalRecorrls of the U 7 1 0 7 2 and Colfedet-fite Armzes. 128 vols. 1.lTashlngton,D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901. RG Record Group Introduction 1. \Tilliams reports the figure in personal con~municationconcerning the Lincoln bibliograplly that he is currently compiling with the assistance of Brown University. 2. The other three persons are Jesus Christ, UTilliam Shakespeare, and Napoleon. 3. The three books are Thomas R. Turner, Berave the People mepilzg (Baton Rouge:Louisiana State UniversityPress, 1982);MTilliamHanchett, TheLincolnLVIz~rder Co;lzspiracies(Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1983); and Thomas R. Turner, The Assassil~atiolzof A~T-ahanz Lincobz (Malabar, Fla,: Krieger Publishing Company, 1999). 4. Hanchett, Lincohz .Llz~rderConspit.acies, p. 3. 5. nTilliamHanchett, "Perspectives on Lincoln's Assassination," in George S. Bryan, The GreatAmerican ,Myth (Chicago: Americana House, 1990),p. ix. 6.Among these books are Otto Eisenschiml, Why Wa.7Lincoln ,\Zurdered? (Boston : Little, Brown, 1937);Eisenschiml, In the Shadow ofLil7c01?1?~ Death York: MTilfredFunk, 1940);Theodore Roscoe, The Web of Co~zspiracy (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959); David Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier Jr., T / J ~ Lincoln Conspirar3,(Los Angeles: Schick Sunn Classic Books, 1977); and Robert Lockwood Mills, It Didn't Happen the Wny You Think (Bowie, Md:. Heritage Books, 1994). 7. Perhaps the best book written on the Lincoln assassination is George S. Bryan, The GreatAmerican ATIyth(Xew York: Carrick and Evans, 1940),which was reprinted in 1990. Bryan, nevertheless, relied heavily on secondary sources failing to take advantage of the large primary record then available. 8. John Y. Simon, remarks at the Fifth Annual Ford's Theatre Symposium, "Lincoln's ,Issassination: Old Assumptions, New Insights," bvashington, D.C., August 3, 1998. 9. Eisenschiml, Why WasLil~cokz,TIzrrdered? 10.Honorable StenyHoyer, "The SamuelA. Mudd ReliefAct of 1997,"quoted in Edward Steers Jr., "His Name Is Still Mudd" (Gettysburg, Pa.: Thomas Publications , 1997), pp. 134-37. 296 hTotesto Pages 3-15 11. William A. Tidwell, James 0 . Hall, and David W. Gaddy, Come Retribation : The Co7federate Secret Service and the Assnssination ofAbraham Lincokz (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1989), p. xiii. 12. Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Colfederate Gover~zme;rzt, 2 vols. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1990), 2:426. 13. "Black flag" was presumably a reference to the pirate black flag that bore a skull and crossbones and signified a "no-holds barred" type of warfare. Thus no one was excluded nor was any action excluded in achieving a successful end, including murder. The term "black flagwarfare" appeared in the PhiladelphiaAge, a daily newspaper , on March 11, 1864, in reference to Colonel Ulric Dahlgren's raid and the papers found on his body. In denouncing Dahlgren's alleged plan to sack Richmond and killJefferson Davis, the Age referred to the action as "black flag warfare," condemningthe Lincoln administration and its supporters. SeeJoseph GeorgeJr., "Black Flag Warfare," Pen~z~ylvania ?ilngazi?ze of Histor-and Biogr-aphy,July 1991, p. 314. 14.Statementof GeorgeA. Atzerodt.Joan L. Chaconas, "Unpublished Atzerodt Confession Revealed Here for the First Time," Su~r.attCou?.ier13, no. 10 (October 1988): 1-3. 15. Tidwell, Hall, and Gaddy, Come Retribution, pp. 416-2 1. 16. For one such opinion see Mark E. hTeelyJr., "Come Retribution, A Review ," Anzerican Historical Review 95, no. 3 Uune 1990): 913-14. 17. In Bryan, G~~eat American *vlyth,p. 7. 1. The Apotheosis 1.The weapon used by Booth was a cap and ball ~ocket ~istol manufactured in Philadelphia by Henry Deringer. The word "derringer" has come to mean other makes of small, one-shot pistols of similar design. 2. Henry S. Safford to O.H. Oldroyd,June 25, 1903, Ford's Theatre, Vi7ashington , D.C. 3.Howard K.Beale, ed., Diafyof Gideon Welles,3vols. (New York:n7.WNorton and Company, 1960),2:283-86. Hereafter referred to as Beale, ed., WellesDialy. 4. The laws of succession in April of 1865, should the president and vice president be killed or incapacitated, called for the president pro tempore of the Senate to serve as acting president. Senator Lafayette S. Foster of Connecticut held this position. 5. Charles A. Leale,Lilzcobz kLast Hours:Address Delivered befoorethe Commandery of the State of New Yo& ,Vlilita?y Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (New York: privately printed, 1909). 6. Emerson Reck,A. Lincolrl:His Last 24 Hoz...
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