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Book/Printed MaterialTrial of John H. Surratt in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting for the trial of crimes and misdemeanors, on an indictment for murder of President Lincoln before His … (In The reporter. A periodical devoted to religion, law, legislation, and public events. Washington city, D.C., 1867. 28 cm. v. 3, p. [57-405], v. 4 ([558] p.) Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift of Alfred Whital Stern, July 19, 1955. digital files not viewed ; td12 2009-01-12 LAC tnb 2021-02-25 update (1 card)- Contributor: United States. District Court (District of Columbia) - Fisher, George P. (George Purnell) - Surratt, John H. (John Harrison) - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialTrial of Abraham Lincoln by the great statesmen of the republic : a council of the past on the tyranny of the present : the spirit of the Constitution of the bench--Abraham … "Reported expressly for the New York Metropolitan record." Includes bibliographical references. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Recat. to AACR2: vj14 12-16-99. digital files not viewed; td12 2009-01-13 LAC ael 2019-05-07 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863-01-01
- Resource: Image - 36
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Book/Printed MaterialThe conspiracy trial for the murder of the president, and the attempt to overthrow the government by the assassination of its principal officers. Trial of David E. Herold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, Michael O'Laughlin, Edward Spangler, Sauel Arnold, Mary E. Surratt and Samuel A. Mudd, before a military commission, at Washington, D.C. "The Commission [to try the conspirators] convened by Special order no. 216, met ... [May 10, 1865] consisting of the following detail:--Major-General David Hunter, U.S.V.; Major-General Lew Wallace, U.S.V.; Brevet Major-General August V. Kautz,…- Contributor: United States. Army. Military Commission (Lincoln's Assassins : 1865) - Payne, Lewis - Surratt, Mary E. (Mary Eugenia) - Arnold, Samuel - Spangler, Edward - Atzerodt, George A. - Herold, David E. - Mudd, Samuel Alexander - O'Laughlin, Michael - Poore, Benjamin Perley
- Date: 1865-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialSpeech to the jury of Richard T. Merrick, Esq., on the trial of John H. Surratt, in the Supreme court of the District of Columbia, sitting for the trial of crimes and …
Reporter, a periodical devoted to religion, law, legislation, and public events "Argument for the defense." Cover title. A separate printing from the Reporter, v. IV, nos. 96-97, September 10-11, 1867. Pages also numbered [427], 428-454, [455]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed ; td12 2009-01-12 Recat. to AACR2: vj14 09-28-98. LAC tnb 2020-10-08 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Surratt, John H. (John Harrison) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Merrick, Richard T. (Richard Thomas)
- Date: 1867-01-01
- Resource: Image - 36
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Book/Printed MaterialMinutes of the meetings and exercises held at the rooms of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania : in commemoration of the centennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. At head of title: The Law Association of Philadelphia. "February 12, 1909." Includes orations by S.W. Pennypacker and A.K. McClure. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Digital files not viewed; td12 2009-01-13- Contributor: Pennypacker, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitaker) - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Law Association of Philadelphia - McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)
- Date: 1909-01-01
- Resource: Image - 38
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Book/Printed MaterialPresident Lincoln's views : an important letter on the principles involved in the Vallandigham case.
Truth from an honest man "Correspondence in relation to the Democratic meeting, at Albany, N.Y." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. A digital reproduction made from a copy held by the University of Michigan is available from the University of Michigan's Making of America Web site. Also available in digital form. Recat. to AACR2: vj14 10-26-98. LAC tnb 2020-10-08 no edits (1 card)…- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863-01-01
- Resource: Image - 20
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Book/Printed MaterialTrial of the assassins and conspirators for the murder of Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of Vice-President Johnson and the whole cabinet : the most intensely interesting trial on record : … Trial of David E. Herold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, Michael O'Laughlin, Edward Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Mary E. Surratt, and Samuel A. Mudd, before a military commission at Washington, D.C. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Recat. to AACR2: vj14 08-11-98.- Contributor: Herold, David E. - United States. Army. Military Commission (Lincoln's Assassins : 1865) - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1865
- Resource: Image - 92
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Book/Printed MaterialLife and extraordinary adventures of John H. Surratt, the conspirator. A correct account and highly interesting narrative of his doings and adventures from childhood to the present time. "Trial of John H. Surratt, conspirator, for the murder of Abraham Lincoln": p. 43-136. McDade, T.M. Murder, 616 Publisher's advertisements on 2 leaves at end. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Form AACR2: vj36 2007-04-13; KF223.S896 1867c Copy 1 formerly E457.5.L72 Copy 2 digital files not viewed ; td12 2009-01-12 LAC tnb 2020-10-08 no edits (1 card) LAC…- Contributor: Barclay & Co. - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867-01-01
- Resource: Image - 128
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Book/Printed MaterialThe assassination of President Lincoln and the trial of the conspirators David E. Herold, Mary E. Surratt, Lewis Payne, George A. Atzerodt, Edward Spangler, Samuel A. Mudd, Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlin. Trial before a military commission at Washington. D.C. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed ; td12 2009-01-12 LAC knj 2019-05-08 update (2 cards)- Contributor: Pitman, Benn - United States. Army. Military Commission (Lincoln's Assassins : 1865) - Payne, Lewis - Surratt, Mary E. (Mary Eugenia) - Arnold, Samuel - Spangler, Edward - Atzerodt, George A. - Herold, David E. - Mudd, Samuel Alexander - O'Laughlin, Michael - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1865-01-01
- Resource: Image - 426
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Book/Printed MaterialTrial of John H. Surratt in the Criminal Court for the District of Columbia, Hon. George P. Fisher presiding. Trial in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, sitting for the trial of crimes and misdemeanors, June-August, 1867, for the murder of President Lincoln. Includes indexes. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed ; td12 2009-01-12 Recat. to AACR2: vj14 09-28-98. LAC tnb 2020-10-08 no edits (1 card) LAC knj 2019-05-08 no edits…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Fisher, George P. (George Purnell) - District of Columbia. Supreme Court - Surratt, John H. (John Harrison)
- Date: 1867-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialTrial of the conspirators, for the assassination of President Lincoln, &c. Argument of John A. Bingham, special judge advocate, in reply to the arguments of the several counsel for Mary E. Surratt, … digital files not viewed ; td12 2009-01-12 LAC tnb 2020-11-05 no edits (2 cards)- Contributor: Payne, Lewis - Surratt, Mary E. (Mary Eugenia) - Arnold, Samuel - Spangler, Edward - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Atzerodt, George A. - Herold, David E. - Mudd, Samuel Alexander - O'Laughlin, Michael - Bingham, John Armor
- Date: 1865-01-01
- Resource: Image - 122
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Book/Printed MaterialLincoln, the lawyer Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed ; td12 2009-01-12- Contributor: Hill, Frederick Trevor
- Date: 1906-01-01
- Resource: Image - 368
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Book/Printed MaterialAbraham Lincoln at the bar of Illinois. An address delivered before the Chicago bar association ... February 11, 1909, Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2009-01-13 LAC knj 2019-05-02 update (1 card)- Contributor: Richards, John T. (John Thomas) - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1909-01-01
- Resource: Image - 18
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Book/Printed MaterialAbraham Lincoln, the lawyer-statesman "Gems of thought from Lincoln": p. [197]-204; Lincoln's cases in the Illinois Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court: p. [207]-252. Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2009-01-13 LAC ael 2019-05-13 update (1 card)- Contributor: Richards, John T. (John Thomas) - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1916-01-01
- Resource: Image - 301
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Book/Printed MaterialThe real life of Abraham Lincoln : a talk with Mr. Herndon, his late law partner Originally appeared in the New York Tribune, January 25, 1867. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Townsend, George Alfred - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Herndon, William Henry
- Date: 1867
- Resource: Image - 19
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Book/Printed MaterialLife on the circuit with Lincoln : with sketches of Generals Grant, Sherman and McClellan, Judge Davis, Leonard Swett, and other contemporaries LAC ael 2019-05-07 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) - Whitney, Henry Clay - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1892
- Resource: Image - 744
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Book/Printed MaterialAbraham Lincoln as a criminal lawyer
Lincoln as a criminal lawyer Cover title. 121 copies printed of which the first 100 were numbered and the remaining 21 were not numbered. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy inscribed on front fly-leaf: "To the Library of Congress by the author Joseph Benjamin Oakleaf." digital files not viewed; td12 2009-01-13 LAC ael 2019-05-13 update (1 card)- Contributor: Oakleaf, Joseph Benjamin - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1923-01-01
- Resource: Image - 16
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Book/Printed MaterialThe war powers of the President, military arrests, and reconstruction of the Union Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed ; td12 2009-01-12 LAC snh 2019-07-12 no edits (2 card)- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham - Whiting, William - Lincoln, Robert Todd - Lincoln Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864-01-01
- Resource: Image - 272
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Book/Printed MaterialOpinions and practice of the founders of the republic : in relation to arbitrary arrests, imprisonment of tories, writ of habeas corpus, seizure of arms and of private papers, domiciliary visits, confiscation …
Administration of Abraham Lincoln sustained by the sages and heroes of the revolution Gift Alfred Whital Stern December 11, 1951 Library of Congress. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed; td12 2009-01-13 LAC tnb 2020-10-08 update (1 card)- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Cook, William A. - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1864
- Resource: Image - 56
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Book/Printed MaterialA review of the argument of President Lincoln and Attorney General Bates, in favor of presidential power to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. KF9011.N535 1861 Copy 1 (now transferred to LLRBR) formerly shelved under: E458.8.N59 Copy 1 in general stacks; gsl card indicates that E458.8.N59 Copies 2 and 3 are in "Rare Bk. Coll." vj17 2007-04-12 LAC aaa 2019-06-05 no edits (1 card) digital files not viewed ; td12 2009-01-12- Contributor: Nicholas, S. S. (Samuel Smith) - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1861-01-01
- Resource: Image - 38
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Book/Printed MaterialTreason and law. A discourse, delivered at Clearspring, Maryland, June 1, 1865, the day of national mourning. On the death of President Lincoln. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed ; td12 2009-01-12- Contributor: Harbaugh, Henry
- Date: 1865-01-01
- Resource: Image - 34
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAbraham Lincoln legal writ, 1839 Title from spine of container. Application of issue of process in Sangamon County Circuit Court (Illinois), case of George M. Stockton versus James Tolly. Entirely in Lincoln's hand and signed by him "Stuart & Lincoln." Purchased in 1942 from The American Autograph Shop, Merion Station, Pennsylvania. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Conserved; 05-84-245 1984 Library of Congress…- Contributor: Lincoln, Abraham
- Date: 1839
- Resource: Image - 2
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CollectionLincoln and the Law Lincoln’s effort to restore the Union and his contributions to American political thought and its ideals of freedom often obscure the fact that he had been a successful attorney. Lincoln himself admitted his ambition lay in politics and not in the law, stating “my forte is as a Statesman, rather than a Prosecutor.” Even if the law was Lincoln’s “secondary” avocation, it was indelibly…Collection Items: View 24 Items
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