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Notice – National Lincoln Monument Association - No Designs for Monument Yet

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A public notice from the National Lincoln Monument Association addressing the “many inquiries being made as to the design of the National Lincoln Monument”. The Association discusses its desire to build a monument that they believe will do the late President justice, and reassurance that once a design is chosen, copies will be sent out to those who chose to help fund the Monument.

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Tucker Collection care of Museum of the Grand Prairie

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National Lincoln Monument Association. "Notice – National Lincoln Monument Association - No Designs for Monument Yet". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed July 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/405

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National Lincoln Monument Association

Date

June 28, 1865

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Notice- National Lincoln Monument Description of Grounds

Description

A notice from the National Lincoln Monument Association, describing the grounds chosen for the monument in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois. The notice goes on to discuss where materials will come from and the view from the Monument grounds.

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Tucker Collection care of Museum of the Grand Prairie

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National Lincoln Monument Association. "Notice- National Lincoln Monument Description of Grounds". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed July 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/404

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National Lincoln Monument Association

Date

1865

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Letter- Invitation to Lincoln Funeral New York

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The letter is an invitation to the funeral obsequies of the late President of the United States in New York. It was issued by John D. Ottiwell, Chairman to the Honorable Carl E.L. Hinrichs, Consul of Saxe Coburg and Gotha and Saxe Altenburg.

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City Hall, New York
April 22, 1865

Respected Sir:

I have the honor, on behalf of the Common Council of this City, to invite your participation in the Funeral obsequies of the late President of the United States, which will take place under the direction of the City Authorities, on Tuesday next, 25th instant.

You will be provided with a suitable meeting room in the office of the Mayor of the City, and you are respectfully invited to be present at 12 M. on that day.

I remain with great respect,
Your obedient servant,
John D, Ottiwell,
Chairman.

Hon Carl E.L. Hinrichs
Consul of Saxe Coburg and Gotha
& Saxe Altenburg

[Transcription by Stephanie Dabik]

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Tucker Collection care of Museum of the Grand Prairie

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John D. Ottiwell. "Letter- Invitation to Lincoln Funeral New York". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed July 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/403

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John D. Ottiwell

Date

April 22, 1865

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Journal – Tuesday April 18 1865, Wednesday April 19

Description

A personal journal. On Wednesday April 19th the author notes that it was the funeral of President Lincoln. They also note that a “deep gloom presides over our whole Country”.

Source

Tucker Collection care of Museum of the Grand Prairie

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Unknown. "Journal – Tuesday April 18 1865, Wednesday April 19". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed July 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/402

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Unknown

Date

April 18, 1865

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Journal – Friday April 14, 1865, Saturday April 16

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The journal contains diary entries from Friday, April 14, 1865 to Saturday, April 15, 1865. April 14th notes that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at 10 o’clock in the evening and that Seward was attacked at the same hour. April 15th notes that the President died at 22 minutes after 7.

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Tucker Collection care of Museum of the Grand Prairie

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Unknown. "Journal – Friday April 14, 1865, Saturday April 16". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed July 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/400

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Unknown

Date

April 15, 1865

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Journal – April Thursday 13 to Sunday 16 1865

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This diary contains journal entries from Thursday, April 13, 1865, through Sunday , April 16th, 1865. April 15th, the author notes that they heard of the death of the President and “also of Seward”. On the 16th the journalist talks about going to church and the “calamity” that has happened to the Nation.

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Tucker Collection care of Museum of the Grand Prairie

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Unknown. "Journal – April Thursday 13 to Sunday 16 1865". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed July 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/397

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Unknown

Date

April 16, 1865

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Newspaper Clipping – A Soldier's Story of the War

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A newspaper clipping that features a facsimile of the Gettysburg Address, and “A Soldier’s Story of the War”. The Soldier’s Story discusses a soldier’s experience with Abraham Lincoln, comparing him to men like Napoleon, and talking about how he was different but good in his own right.

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Museum of the Grand Prairie

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Unknown. "Newspaper Clipping – A Soldier's Story of the War". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed July 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/380

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Unknown

Date

ca. 1865

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Johannes Oertel Diary

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Johannes Oertel, a minister who later became an artist, wrote about his feelings on the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln five days before.

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Wednesday, April 19, 1865

Most memorable day! A day of mourning and lamentation! A continent in tears! The Nation weeping, and her foes dismayed and fleeing in disguise and terror! This cursed rebellion has culminated its gigantic atrocities in the foul murder of our great, good, beloved President. The hand of a vile assassin extinguished his precious life last Friday evening, and today over twenty millions of people mourn after his hearse, and swear over his grave by High Heaven a solemn, determined oath, that the black wickedness, which has for four bloody years made our beautiful country old in deeds of carnage and violence, shall be utterly wiped out of existence, and evenhanded Justice have her uninterrupted work with the leaders, who caused such widespread misery.

As the dreadful news of the assassination of Mr. Abr. Lincoln flashed over the thousands of miles of this continent, the nation received a paralysis shock indeed. A feeling of horror and deep gloom spread over the land, and men were struck dumb with awe. All fealt the fearful calamity and felt the national bereavement. We have lost a Father! A great man has fallen. For four years, with a far-seeing, calm and clear mind, steady and unwavering in high principle and sterling integrity, with the purest patriotism and self-sacrifice, an all-embracing love and tender care, patient and untouched by censure or calumny, looking with devout faith and childlike trust to the end, as a merciful Providence would surely protect the right and bring it to victory, he has guided his distressed county in her greatest dangers and perils, has firmly established the principle of universal freedom, subdued the power of her enemies, and raised again, our proud banner upon the ruined walls of that very fortress whence treason struck it down just four years before, and now that the future rose up before his gratified vision, radiant with glory and happiness and strength, and his herkulean labors found a sweet reward, malicious hatred cut him off in the height of his usefulness. The hellish spirit of slavery and treason has done its perfect work--but it has struck the death blow at its own black heart. If there has existed any tendency to forget the depth of its heinous wickedness and to be easy with those men who led in treason and infamy, that tendency has vanished. There never was a more sudden revolution of feeling in the common mind of a whole great nation, as has been effected by the assassination of our lamented President. Treason could have done nothing so destructive of its own ends, so suicidal to its own existence. Both at home and with the whole civilized world it stands now utterly and forever condemned. It has fully revealed its true character, and the reckless, godless barbarity which has indeed marked the conduct of the South throughout this war, the outgrowth and legitimate consequence of that revolting inhuman system of slavery. But thank God! Henceforth our flag must wave over a country undivided and free, where no cruel lash drives a human chattel to their unwilling work; where no being created immortal and redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ is bought and bartered away for money; where no wanton outrage can under the sanction of law trample under foot the ties of marriage and family relations; where education can no more be made a penal offence; where life is held sacred; where a man can travel from Maine to Florida and to the far Pacific without carrying revolver and knife; where, within the bounds of reason and law, he can utter his sentiments without fear and restraint; where on every foot of it he can truly feel that it is his fatherland, belonging to him and every citizen from one end to the other throughout its vast extent; where he has the right of a freeman, the protection of the law, the consciousness of security, and a just pride in a great country and a superior form of government, that has stood the fiery trial of an unparalleled insurrection most victoriously and approved itself more worthy of the confidence of all mankind, and the respect of foreign powers, than ever before it was so severely tried.

And to this end President Abraham Lincoln has contributed more than any other man. Be has established freedom, and has died its martyr. He lived for a great, noble principle, and died for it. His death is the seal of Liberty. Be is our Martyr-President. The grateful heart of the nation will hold his name most dear and all future history will call him the Great and the Good. His name is enshrined in sacred memory in the hearts of the poor, the oppressed, and down-trodden, whose father and liberator he emphatically has been, and wherever and whenever, the crushing out of the system of human slavery upon the soil of these United States is mentioned, by word or print, there will be associated with it inseperably and most favorably the venerated, beloved name of Abraham · Lincoln, the great Liberator, and martyr of freedom!

The Nation has prayed to day, and is praying, that the mercyful and almighty God, our ruler and our guide may impart wisdom, and strength, and firmness to his successor, Mr. Andrew Johnson, and make him a willing and fit instrument in His Land to do His heavenly will, and lead this people through the mazes of difficulties which yet surround us on every side, to peace, and justice, and happiness, in the fear of God, to His honor and glory, Amen.

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The Leo Pascal Collection

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Johannes Oertel. "Johannes Oertel Diary". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed July 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/365

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Johannes Oertel

Date

April 19, 1865

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Sarah Gooll Putnam diary 7 excerpt, entries for 13-17 April 1865

Description

Sarah Gooll Putnam, a teenager (who was 14 years old in during the spring 1865 and lived primarily in Boston, Massachusetts), describes the shock and sadness of hearing about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Her diaries (started in 1860, when she was 9, and continued until close to the time of her death at age 61 in 1912) feature many illustrations. The entry for 15 April 1865 includes a minimalist sketch of a face with a shocked expression.

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31 April
Glee. The little dog was taken away by John
I read [?] [?], and check home
Lousia came in in the morning and so did
Mr. Greenrough and Mr. Baron.

13 Thurs. I packed up some of my things and
Stayed to alice Russels to drink tea, where I
Stayed awfully late

14 Frid. Packing went on at a great rate. Just
Think, we shall be out of this house Monday
Or Tuesday. I went to Aunt Lousia’s to tea
Grandma Upham came to our house for her’s.

15th Sat. Now guess my feelings when
Coming down to breakfast as Mother’s saying
“The President is killed!” I stood so for
A few minutes without speak -
Ing. I can not realize it yet-
Poor, dear, old, abe, [?] of
Will kill how his death came
On without any sentiment for that over
No good. Last night he went with Mrs.
Lincoln to see “Our American Cousin” [?]
([?] - Washington) During one of the acts
A justice shot was heard and a shriek
From Mrs. Lincoln and before people
Could collect their [?] a man flourishing

A knife strung from the boy by President
Lincoln, dashed onto the stage, said “[?] [?]
[?]” and rushed off. Now President
L is dead, dear old kind Abe. An attempts
Was made on Mr. Seward’s life too, who was
Sick in his bed. An assasin came into the room
Under pretense of somebody sent from a
doctor or something like that. He almost
Succeeding in assasinating both Mr. Seward
and his son who was in the same room
With his father. Everybody’s house almost
Is just in mourning for Abraham Lincoln
The houses are drafted with black and white
16th Sun. The sermon was almost entirely about
The [?] assassination.

17th Mon. Mother cleaned out the house, and
I went to Aunt Louisa’s to tea. Many and
[?] went to Grandma Upham’s.

18th Tues. There was an question at our house
It was rather mournful coming home from
School to see loads of furniture going from
Our house that we never shall sleep in
Again! Bridget, Hannah and many [?]
Walked round this house [?] the [?] with
Robin in Bridget’s [?] She bought the kitchen

[Transcription by: Megan Klein, Rachel Engl's class, Lehigh University]

Source

Massachusetts Historical Society, Ms. N-758

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Putnam, Sarah Gooll. "Sarah Gooll Putnam diary 7 excerpt, entries for 13-17 April 1865". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed July 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/285

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Putnam, Sarah Gooll

Date

April 15, 1865