TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Note to Readers ix
Key Players xii
Prologue xvi
PART 1
THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE WAR 1
PART 2
THE CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSINATE 59
PART 3
LINCOLN’S LAST DAY 93
PART 4
CHASING THE ASSASSINS 185
Afterword 240
Lincoln’s World
A Walk Through Washington, D.C., in the 1860s 256
Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Their Children 260
The Aging of Abraham Lincoln 265
Did You Know?
Twenty Important and Interesting Facts About the Civil War 266
Transportation During the Civil War 273
Flags of the Civil War 275
Weapons of the Civil War 277
Medicine During the Civil War 280
Abraham Lincoln Time Line 283
John Wilkes Booth Time Line 289
Washington, D.C.
Finding Lincoln in the Nation’s Capital Today 291
Military Terms 297
Bibliography 300
Recommended Reading 302
Recommended Websites 304
Recommended Viewing 306
Index 307