Newspaper from Apr. 18, 1865
"Immense Meeting on Sunday -- A Sabbath Well Spent -- 6,000 People Present"
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"Immense Meeting on Sunday -- A Sabbath Well Spent -- 6,000 People Present"
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Description
Pantagraph story about how the news arrived, and the indignation meeting on the courthouse square.
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"We have been told that when our dispatch reached Bloomington the news could not at first be believed. More confirmations soon arrived and the dreadful truth was accepted by all. Almost simultaneously houses and stores were draped in heavy mourning, and the entire community was overwhelmed in grief"
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The Pantagraph. ""Immense Meeting on Sunday -- A Sabbath Well Spent -- 6,000 People Present"". The Pantagraph. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed November 23, 2024. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/713
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The Pantagraph
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The Pantagraph
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April 18, 1865
Newspaper from Apr. 18, 1865
"Immense Meeting on Sunday -- A Sabbath Well Spent -- 6,000 People Present"
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Description
Pantagraph story about how the news arrived, and the indignation meeting on the courthouse square.
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Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA)
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Creator
The Pantagraph
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Publisher
The Pantagraph
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Date
April 18, 1865