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Printed Treasury Department order to wear a crepe mourning band in honor of Lincoln

Treasury Department order: Mourning band

Document from Apr. 17, 1865

Contemporary copy of telegram of Gideon Welles, Secy. of the Navy, Navy Department, Washington, to Comdr. D. W. Dougal, Comdt. Navy Yard, San Francisco, California, April 17, 1865

Telegram of Gideon Welles

Letter from Apr. 17, 1865

Printed General Order no. 51 - Department of the Navy

General Order no. 51

Document from Apr. 15, 1865

$10,000 reward!

$10,000 reward!

Document from Apr. 15, 1865

Account of Lincoln's Funeral in Washington, D.C.[Detail]

Lincoln Funeral in Washington

Newspaper from Apr. 20, 1865

General Orders, No. 69, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, April 17, 1865

General Orders, No. 69

Newspaper from Apr. 17, 1865

Contemporary copy of telegram of J. B. Montgomery, Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., to Joseph Smith, Rear Admiral, Chief of Bureau Yards, Navy Department, April 15, 1865

Telegram of J. B. Montgomery

Letter from Apr. 15, 1865

Contemporary copy of telegram of J. B. Montgomery, Navy Yard, Washington, [to Gideon Welles], April 15, 1865

Telegram of J. B. Montgomery

Letter from Apr. 15, 1865

United States Military Telegraph of S. Nickerson, St. Inigoes, Md., to Comdg. Officer Anacostia, Point Lookout, April 15, 1865

Telegraph: Instructions for Manhunt

Letter from Apr. 15, 1865

U. S. Military Telegraph of S. Nickerson, Actg. Vol. Master, to Comdr. F. A. Parker, April 15, 1865

Telegraph: President Lincoln was assassinated

Letter from Apr. 15, 1865

Execution of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators

Execution of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators

Photograph from Jul. 7, 1865

Execution of the Conspirators

Execution of the Conspirators

Photograph from Jul. 7, 1865

Handwritten letter to Joseph Medill from Schuyler Colfax

Schuyler Colfax to Joseph Medill

Letter from Apr. 17, 1865