A special publication from LOA on the Lincoln assassination & the aftermath. The editor did a splendid job of using letters, newspaper accounts, diary entries, poems & speeches in memorial of Lincoln. From the moment of the assassination, the accounts of the hunt & final end of Booth, the trial & execution of the 4 conspirators, to the funeral procession to Springfield Illinois to Lincoln's final resting place, the reader is given scenes of horror, of the chaos surrounding Seward's near death at the hands of an assassin until the trial & execution. In this account, a nearly complete account of the period surrounding Lincoln's death is amazingly put together. In some cases, there are the diary entries of Confederate women whose eye opening statements left no doubt the level of animosity that remained in spite of the end of the war. Francis Carpenter's account is unusually accurate. The unusual statement made by the editor's on F. Douglass' 2nd speech made 15 years after Lincoln's death was quite inappropriate since the speech has to be read as a whole. Although Douglass regarded Lincoln less than he did earlier, he did not dwell on that statement. After reading the 2nd Douglass speech, the editor's statement should have been left unsaid, hence the 4 star ( )