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THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN AT FORD'S THEATRE-AFTER THE ACT.

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AND FUNERAL OF

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

SIXTEENTH

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

With a Portrait of President Lincoln, and other Illustrative
Engravings of the Scene of the Assassination, etc.

With a full history of his Life; Assassination; Death, and Funeral. His career
as a Lawyer and Politician; his services in Congress; with his Speeches, Proclą.
mations, Acts, and services as President of the United States, and Commander-in-
Chief of the Army and Navy, from the time of his first Inauguration as President
of the United States, until the night of his Assassination. Only new and complete
edition, with a full history of the assassination, by distinguished eye-wit
nesses of it. Mr. Lincoln's Death-bed scenes, and a full account of the Funeral
Ceremonies, from the time his remains were placed in the East Room at the White
House, until they were finally consigued to their last resting place, in Oak Ridge
Cemetery, at Springfield, Illinois; with Addresses and Sermons by the Hon.
Schuyler Colfax; Hon. George Bancroft; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher; General
Walbridge; Bishop Simpson, etc., with a full account of the escape, pursuit,lappre-
hension, and death of the assassin, Booth.

Philadelphia:

T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS,

306

CHESTNUT STREET.

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