way without interruption to within a few feet of Lincoln. At
point-blank distance, he had shot him from behind, through the head. In
the confusion which ensued, he escaped from the theatre; fled from the
city; was pursued; and was himself shot and killed a few days later.

The bullet of the assassin had entered the brain, causing instant
unconsciousness. The dying President was removed to a house on Tenth
Street, No. 453, where he was laid on a bed in a small room at the rear
of the hall on the ground floor.(12)

Swift panic took possession of the city. "A crowd of people rushed
instinctively to the White House, and bursting through the doors,
shouted the dreadful news to Robert Lincoln and Major Hay who sat
gossiping in an upper room. . . . They ran down-stairs. Finding a
carriage at the door, they entered it and drove to Tenth Street."(13)

To right and left eddied whirls of excited figures, men and women
questioning, threatening, crying out for vengeance. Overhead amid
driving clouds, the moon, through successive mantlings of darkness,
broke periodically into sudden blazes of light; among the startled
people below, raced a witches' dance of the rapidly changing
shadows.(14)

Lincoln did not regain consciousness. About dawn his pulse began to
fail. A little later, "a look of unspeakable peace came over his worn
features"(15), and at twenty-two minutes after seven on the morning of
the fifteenth of April, he died.

THE END

BIBLIOGRAPHY

It is said that a complete bibliography of Lincoln would include at
least five thousand titles. Therefore, any limited bibliography must
appear more or less arbitrary. The following is but a minimum list in
which, with a few exceptions such as the inescapable interpretative
works of Mr. Rhodes and of Professor Dunning, practically everything has
to some extent the character of a source.

Alexander. A Political History of the State of New York. By De Alva
Stanwood Alexander. 3 vols. 1909.

Arnold. History of Abraham Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery. By
Isaac N. Arnold. 1866.

Baldwin. Interview between President Lincoln and Colonel John B.
Baldwin. 1866.

Bancroft. Life of William H. Seward. By Frederick Bancroft. 2 vols.
1900.

Barnes. Memoir of Thurlow Weed. By Thurlow Weed Barnes. 1884.

Barton. The Soul of Abraham Lincoln. By William Eleazar Barton. 1920.

Bigelow. Retrospections of an Active Life. By John Bigelow. 2 vols.
1909.

Blaine. Twenty Years o