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the right executive’s in the mansion
The Democrat Reveille found some kind words to write about Abraham Lincoln after his death. It seems that Southerners and Northern Democrats appreciated President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address and the lenient terms of surrender offered Southern armies. Here a presumably … Continue reading
“Many said: Is it possible to save our nation?”
From The New-York Times May 5, 1865: THE BURIAL.; President Lincoln Again at His Western Home. The Mortal, Four Years Absent, Returns Immortal. Close of the Grandest Funeral Procession in History. Two Weeks’ Solemn March Among Millions of Mourners. The … Continue reading
Ballistic in Buffalo
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in 1865: When J. Wilkes Booth played in Buffalo three years ago, he broke a plate glass window in the store of O.E. Sibley, where a lot of rebel trophies were exhibited. He … Continue reading
here comes the Chief Justice
From The New-York Times May 2, 1865: AN IMPORTANT MISSION.; Chief Justice Chare Reorganizing the Southern Courts-The Freedom of Commerce. Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Monday, May 1. Chief Justice CHASE was one of a small party who … Continue reading
banner headline
Another pleasing coincidence, given that I took the Richmond Daily Dispatch for fours years, until earlier this month. During the federal occupation of Richmond the Confederate flag flying over the newspaper’s office was captured and brought north to Rochester, New … Continue reading
Columbus, Obsequies
Two images from April 29, 1865 during funeral obsequies for Abraham Lincoln in Columbus Ohio, a stop on the funeral train’s long trek to Springfield: According to the Library of Congress the following photo “shows a Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati … Continue reading
“large personal profits”
April 1865 – surrender, assassination, joy, resignation, despair, mourning. And news of alleged corruption in the military bureaucracy. Four from Seneca County, New York newspapers in April 1865: REMOVAL OF MAJOR HADDOCK. – It is reported that Maj. Haddock has … Continue reading
round midnight
It was reported that just before midnight on April 26, 1865 President Lincoln’s funeral cortege arrived in Syracuse, New York. 35,000 people were waiting in the rain to pay their respects with bells, fires, and cannon as the train chugged … Continue reading
petition for legal protection
On February 22, 1865 “Tennessee voters approve a new state constitution that abolishes slavery” According to this report, on the same day that President Lincoln was shot, black men in Tennessee petitioned the state senate for legal rights. Freedom wouldn’t … Continue reading
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savior’s progress
Above the entrance to the ferry way appears the inscription: “WASHINGTON, the Father; LINCOLN, the Savior of his country.” 150 years ago today the remains of President Lincoln and his son Willie were conveyed from Philadelphia to New York City. … Continue reading
