Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Lincoln's Deathbed in Art and Memory -- Abraham Lincoln's New York City Funeral -- Not Everybody Mourned Lincoln's Death -- Lincoln's Chief Avenger: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt -- The Lincoln Assassination in Law and Lore -- Writing History in a Vacuum -- ''Let the Stain of Innocent Blood Be Removed from the Land'' -- Process versus Truth in the Case of the Lincoln Conspiracy -- The Martyr and the Myth -- Contributors -- The Lincoln Forum -- Index.