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Letter – Roades April 20 pt 1

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Personal letter from C. Roades to their brother and sister discussing the assassination of the President and his subsequent death.

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Birksill Stations
Va Apr the 20th 65
Dear Brother & Sister

with much pleasure I seat myself in ans [answer] to yours of the 9th which I received last night
was glad to hear from you and that you was well
I am well as could be expected under the presant [present] circumstances
we have had a hard march
we left the Point the 10th
since that I have lost 20 or 25 lbs of flesh

we are encamped in the woods near the station
we are fixing up the camp ground and drilling some.
the boys are all well that you know
yesterday we did not doe [do] ennything [anything]
we had a day of rest on the acount [account] of the death of our President
the most of the Regt lament his loss
some think it all for the best
But there is some that always has been opposed to him and the administration but I dont [don't] think we can get a man that will fill his place as well as he did.
it is the greatest outrage that ever I heard of
Booth is the assassinater
you have perhapse [perhaps] red [read] the particulars before this

Bill you wrote that you had bought another farm.
is it a good time to buy land now
you said you wanted some help in haying and harvesting
I should like varry much to work on a farm this summer but that depends on whether Unkle [Uncle] sam gets throug [through] with me or not
some think we will have to stay over time and others think we will go home within 6 weeks but I dont pretend to know ennything about it
at least a soldier is not supposed to know ennything
when they say go I am ready to go or if I am needed hear I am there [their] man

Bill I have not got the box you sent me yet but hope to get it soon
I got a letter Adel yesterday
they wer all well
I was glad to hear from her as it is the first time since she left home

Bill acording [according] to all acounts that we get the war is over and if so we wont [won't] be needed unless it is to gather up the tools that is scatterd [scattered] about the Country
some think this is what we will doe but I see that Grant is in favor of lessening the expences [expenses] of the Government by disposing a part of the army that is not needed.
I must close for want of time
yours in hast from your affectionate Brother

C Roades

[transcription by: Mary Cotterman]

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C. Roades. "Letter – Roades April 20 pt 1". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/435

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C. Roades

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April 20, 1865

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Letter- New Orleans April 20 1865

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A letter originating in New Orleans, Louisiana, from J.B. Statt to Captain Guy F. Emmons. The letter invites the Captain to an event where the “brothers at arms can meet at Liberty Hall on Friday the 21st to express sentiments and adopt measures on the mournful occasion of the death of our Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln.”

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New Orleans, La.

April 20th 1865.

Captain Geo F. Emmons,

Comdg.

In behalf of the committee appointed at a meeting of affairs of the Army and Navy held on the 19th wish. We respectfully request you to meet your brothers in arms at Liberty Hall on Friday the 21st wish at 12 o' clock, M. for the purpose of expressing such sentiments and adopting such measure as may be proper on the mournful occasion of the death of our Commander in Chief , Abraham Lincoln.

Very respectfully,

Your Obdt Servt.,

Signature, J.B Statt

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J.B. Statt

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April 20, 1865

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Letter - Dexter Jewett Washington DC April 24 pt1

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A personal letter from a soldier camped three miles from Washington to his mother. The letter mentions that there is a report that someone has caught Booth, Lincoln’s murderer.

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Camp three miles from
Washington April 24

Dear mother

We are now in camp about three miles from Washington on the Maryland side of the Potomac but we don't know where we will go to next there there in some talk of our going home on half pay and stay untill we are needed for they dont [don't] exactly know where to send us.

We started from Summit Point last Thursday on the cars and arrived here on Friday noon.
I hope we will stay here for we get enough to eat we get nine loaves of bread a week and large ones at that.

There is a report that they have caught Booth the murderer of the President has been caught I believe this morning in some woods a little way from here.
I hope it is true.

About every house in Washington is draped in morning on the outside and the people look as though they feel bad about the President being killed.
We have not had a mail for four days and we ought to get the whole soon
I suppose I shall have some letters by it.

Have you got that company roll that I sent home to you
if you have I wish you would tell me how you like for some of them were nothing but a sell and I dont know but when that one may be for I have not opened it.
I would like to have a little [illegible] if you could send me some for I have no writing nor envelopes.
Has George got home yet
I don't see why they are so slow about mustering him out.
all of our men were mustered out the very day their time was up.
We do duty on this side of the Potomac and also do part of the patrol in the city of Washington

Tell George that he had better not think of going into Hancocks veterans for that corps I think is the meanest thing that has been got up since the war commenced with the exception of hundred days men and Hancock he had has nothing but reviews inspections company and brigade drills all the time and we all glad that we have got out of his clutches and he was going to make us throw away all clothing but what we drew from government and so far as to make us have two pair of shoes.

There is a story that a lot of Mosby's men who have given themselves up have been sent after Mosby and guess they will get him if anybody can.

I shall have to close now so goodbye for the present.

from your son
Dexter Jewett
Co H 30 Md Va Co
Washington
D.C.

[Transcription by: Mary Cotterman]

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Dexter Jewett. "Letter - Dexter Jewett Washington DC April 24 pt1". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/432

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Dexter Jewett

Date

April 24, 1865

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Notice – Resolutions Regarding Lincoln Tomb

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A public notice of resolutions of the Lincoln National Monument Association that were approved at a meeting of the Committee of Arrangements. The resolutions cover a number of issues from electing the Treasurer to donations to how the resolutions would be transmitted to the public.

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Office of the Lincoln National Monument Association,

Springfield, Ill., April 25th, 1865,


Dear Sir;

At a meeting of the Committee of Arrangements appointed by the citizens of the City of Springfield, Illinois, April 24th, 1865, the following resolutions were adopted:


Resolved, That Governor Richard J. Oglesby, Lieut. Gov. Wm. Bross, Hon. Sharon Tyndale, Secretary of State, Hon. O. H. Miner, Auditor of State, Hon. Jas. H. Beveridge, Treasurer, Hon. J. T. Stuart, Hon. S. H. Treat, Hon. Jesse K. Dubois, Hon. O. M. Hatch, Hon. John A. McCleruand, Hon. Wm. Butler, Hon. Jas. C. Conkling, Hon. Thos. J. Dennis, and such others as they may select, constitute a Lincoln National Monument Association, for the purpose of receiving funds and disbursing the same, for obtaining grounds and erecting a monument thereon in Springfield, Ills., to the memory of our lamented Chief Magistrate, Abraham Lincoln.


Resolved, That Hon. James H. Beveridge, Treasurer of the State of Illinois, be the Treasurer of the said association.


Resolved, That all the officers and soldiers of our armies, and the officers, marines and sailors of our navy, at their several camps, stations, forts and hospitals, be requested to make a contribution, for the said purposes, during the second week of May, 1865, or as soon therafter as possible, and remit by draft, or otherwise, to said Treasurer at Springfield Illinois.


Resolved, That the Councils of the Loyal League throughout the nation be requested to contribute for the purpose aforesaid, at their weekly meeting in the second week of May, 1865, and remit to said Treasurer.


Resolved, That the various boards of trade and chambers of commerce throughout the nation, be requested to contribute during the said week, for the said purposes, and remit as aforesaid.


Resolved, That the several lodges of Masons and Odd Fellows throughout the nation be requested to contribute for said purposes at their regular meetings in said week, and remit as aforesaid.


Resolved, That all literary, religious and benevolent associations throughout the land, be requested to contribute at their regular meetings in said week and remit as aforesaid.


Resolved, That the churches of all denominations throughout the land be requested to take up a collection on the second Sunday in May, 1865, for said purposes and remit as aforesaid.


Resolved, That the colored population of our country to whom our lamented Chief Magistrate was so generous a benefactor, be requested to contribute during said week, or as soon thereafter as convenient and remit as aforesaid.


Resolved, That every individual who reveres the name of Abraham Lincoln, and who may desire to act separately be requested to contribute during said week, or as soon thereafter as convenient, and remit as aforesaid.


Resolved, That the National Parks and Post Masters throughout the nation be the agents of said association for remittance of contributions.


Resolved, That the above resolutions be transmitted by telegraph and published in every newspaper in the country as speedily as possible.


John T. Stuart, Chair'n.

James C. Conkling, Secretary.


On the 26th day of April 1865, the Association organized by the appointment of-


Richard Oglesby, President. James H. Beveridge, Treasurer.

Sharon Tyndale, Secretary. Clinton L. Conkling, Ass't Secretary.


This said Association now appeals to you in the most urgent manner to exert all your influence towards the accomplishment of its purposes, by keeping the second week of May next, or the earliest day possible thereafter, prominently before the public as the time to contribute to the erection of a monument to our lamented Chief Magistrate ABRAHAM LINCOLN.


Let the nation by one simultaneous movement testify its regard for his exalted character; its appreciation for his distinguished services, and its sorrow for his death by erecting, to his memory, a monument that will forever prove that Republics are not ungrateful.


Most beautiful grounds, already adorned by nature and embellished by art, near the centre of the city of Springfield, have been selected as his final resting place.


His mortal remains now await your response, ere they shall be deposited beneath a MONUMENT that shall be worthy of his fame and the affectionate gratitude of a generous nation.


RICHARD J. OGLESBY, President.


SHARON TYNDALE, Secretary.

CLINTON L. CONKLING, Assistant Secretary.


N.B. All National Banks and Postmasters are requested to act as agents to receive and transmit funds. No other agents will be appointed except under Seal with written signatures of the officers.

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National Lincoln Monument Association. "Notice – Resolutions Regarding Lincoln Tomb ". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/406

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National Lincoln Monument Association

Date

April 24, 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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John D. Ottiwell. "Letter- Invitation to Lincoln Funeral New York". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/403

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John D. Ottiwell

Date

April 22, 1865

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Journal – DC Journal Sunday April 16 to Friday 21

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Pages of a journal dating from Sunday, April 16, 1865, to Friday, April 21, 1865. Most of the entries are blank. The Wednesday, April 19, 1865, entry notes that “President Lincoln was carried to the Capitol to day” and discusses the procession.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1865.


President Lincoln was
carried to the Capitol to day
the procession was very large
probably 10,000 persons in it and
many more on the streets


THURSDAY 20


[[No Notes]]


FRIDAY 21


[[No Notes]]




[Transcription team: Jaeger K., Gabriel Z., Dwight S.]


[New Hampton Middle School, New Hampton, Iowa]

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Unknown. "Journal – DC Journal Sunday April 16 to Friday 21". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/399

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Unknown

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April 19, 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 December 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/365

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Johannes Oertel

Date

April 19, 1865

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Alice Strickler Keyes diary entry

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Alice Strickler Keyes eyewitness account of the day that Lincoln’s funeral train stopped in Columbus, Ohio, on its way to Springfield, Illinois, where the remains of the president and those of his son Willie would be buried. This account is an excerpt from the Alice Strickler Keyes diary passage in the Altrurian Club of Columbus, Ohio President's Book.

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[Page 1]
25
These grounds, at the head of State street, it was so far from the town and in such a swampy and unimproved district, that it too was dubbed “Swayne’s Folly.” Noah Swayne became most widely known as Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

His home at the head of State street was later occupied by J. Ewing Miller. Its site is now that of the Carnegie Library.

Before the “Insane Asylum” burned, the terminus of all our walks eastward, was the great flat boulder, that still lies on the sidewalk in the east Broad street, east of Jefferson Avenue.

A little farther east the Asylum Grounds ended, and not far beyond, lay “Riley’s Woods,” and the open country.

In April, 1865, Columbus with the rest of The Nation was celebrating the “Fall of Fort Sumpter,” the surrender of General Lee, and the End of the “Civil War.” There was great rejoicing.

April 14th was appointed by Governor Brough as a day of thanksgiving. On that day there were services in the churches in the morning;—in the afternoon

[Page 2]
26
and evening everything was done that is possible on such occasions to express the joy of the citizens. The town was lavishly decorated.

The next morning, April 15th all this joy was turned to sorrow when the news of President Lincoln’s assassination reached the city. The emblems of Victory gave place to those of mourning for the fallen Chief.

It was learned a few days later, that the funeral train on its way to Springfield, Illinois, would stop in Columbus, and that the body of the President would lie in state for one day, in the Rotunda of the Capitol.

At school we were told that the city Fire Department would be in the procession to meet the train at the station, and that a number of young girls, dressed in deep mourning were wanted—one to stand beside each driver on the fire engines, and many others to ride on the large “Hook and Ladder” wagon, reconstructed for the occasion.

[Page 3]
27
This plan was carried out. Forty-two school girls of varying ages, of whom I was one, rode on this car, massed around one of our teachers (Miss Sarah Smith) who was heavily draped in black and represented “Columbia.”

After the coffin of President Lincoln was placed on the splendid funeral car, the procession started back on its route through the streets of the city.

At intervals the black robed girls on the float, led by their teacher, sang verses from dirge-like hymns.

When the procession stopped at the gate of the Capitol, these girls left their float and were led into the building, and past the coffin of the President. It is said over fifty thousand people viewed “the remains” that day.

The catalogue used to carry the body of President Lincoln had a canopy shaped like a pagoda. It was large, covered with black cloth, festooned, and trimmed with silver fringe. It was drawn by six white horses with large black plumes on their heads. The horses had a covering of black cloth edged with silver fringe, and each horse was led by a groom dressed in black.

[Page 4]
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The silver fringe used to trim the funeral car of President Lincoln in Columbus, was afterward turned over to women of one of the church societies, to make into souvenirs to be sold, and I was able to secure a piece of it.

The historian of the “Altrurian Club” (Mrs. Cope) has asked for a small portion of the fringe to be attached to this record of my recollections, and I am happy to give this tiny, precious relic to “Altrurian Club,” of which I am a charter member, and through all the years of its existence, without a break, a constant and loyal member.
Alice S. Keyes
(Mrs. Elias A. Keyes.)
[piece of silver fringe attached]


[Transcription by McCaela Michas]

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Ohio History Connection

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Keyes, Alice Strickler. "Alice Strickler Keyes diary entry". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/282

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Keyes, Alice Strickler

Date

1907

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Dedicated to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln...America's noblest sons are weeping

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Broadside reading "Dedicated to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln" including 8 lines of poetry beginning "America's noblest sons are weeping" copyright James Logan [Philadelphia].

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DEDICATED
TO THE
MEMORY OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

America’s noblest sons are weeping
Her daughters they are bathed in tears;
Abraham the Great has fallen---in
Nature’s sleep, the sleep of years.
Now he’s gone, we’ll not recall him
From a paradise of bliss----
Where he pleads the cause of Freedom
To a changing world like this.

Entered to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by James Logan, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.




[Transcription by: Dr. Susan Corbesero, Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Gordon Block Collection of Lincolniana, UPenn Ms. Coll. 941, Box 4 Folder 1

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Logan, James. "Dedicated to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln...America's noblest sons are weeping". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/294

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Logan, James

Date

1865

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Diary of William Ellis Stork, Volume 1, Preston, Minnesota

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Diary of William Ellis Stork as he recounts his life and his reactions to major events.

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"Got news of Lincoln’s death and the attempted assassination of Sen [??]" (pg. 30)

"1865 April 3. Richmond & Peters burg was evacuated by the rebels & taken possession of by our forces April 9th and 10th Gen[eral] Lee surrendered the army of north Virginia to Grant Lincoln died was shot at a Theatre April 14th & died April 15th. Born July 12th 1809 Age at death death 55 y[ea]rs 9 m[onths] 3 d[ays] 16 m[inutes] President of the United States [inked line] Andrew Johnson took the oath of office as President April 15th at 11 o’clock A.M. [inked line] J. Wilkes Booth & his accomplice Harrold the murderers of President Lincoln was found in a barn at a Mr Garrotts 3 Ms[miles] from Bowling Green towards Port Royal in Virginia Booth was shot in the barn & died at 7 A.M. April 26th Harrold was taken to Washington President Johnson in his Proclamation of May 2nd after stating It appears from evidence in the burden[?] of military justice that the atrocious murder of the late President & attempted murder of W[illiam] H. Seward secretary of State incited, concerted, of & between Jefferson Davis late of Richmond Va[Virginia] & Jacob Thompson Clement Clay Beverly Tucker George N. Danders W.C. Cleary & others rebels & traitors against the Government of the United States, Harbored in Canada now therefore to the end" (pg. 74)

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Minnesota Reflections

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Stork, William Ellis, 1841 - 1938. "Diary of William Ellis Stork, Volume 1, Preston, Minnesota". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed December 16, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/319

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Stork, William Ellis, 1841 - 1938

Date

April 15, 1865