from Feb. 16, 1866
"Danger from a Broken Spine!"
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"Danger from a Broken Spine!"
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This editorial argues for a reinstitution of the writ of habeas corpus by drawing on a colorful statement made by President Lincoln in a message sent to General Joe Hooker: “I wouldn’t take any risk of being entangled up the river, like an ox half jumped over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs, front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.” The editorial describes the United States as the metaphorical ox, “stuck fast on the reconstruction thorns.” Published in the Montgomery Daily Mail on February 16, 1866.
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Danger from a Broken Spine!
We are apt to gather inspiration from words of wisdom. Congress has just published a volume of nearly a thousand pages from a Committee on the war. In it we find the following striking dispatch from the late lamented Mr. Lincoln to “Fighting Joe” Hooker, just before the latter was hooked by Lee at Chancellorsville:
“I wouldn’t,” writes the President, “take any risk of being entangled up the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs, front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.”
This striking metaphorical language of Mr. Lincoln will live in history alongside of the figure of Corked-up Butler. As it was then applied to Hooker’s army so it may be now applied to the United States. It is like a huge ox, half-jumped over a bois d’arc hedge and stuck fast on the reconstruction thorns. There sticks the old ox, with tongue hanging out and eyes rolling in agony, unable to gore forwards at John Bull or kick backward at Mexico! If the President will only twist its tail a little or build a fire under its nose, by restoring the write of habeas corpus, we think the old ox will get over.
[Transcription by: Dr. Susan Corbesero, Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, item number ADVCOL42. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Montgomery Daily Mail. ""Danger from a Broken Spine!"". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 23, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/231
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Montgomery Daily Mail
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February 16, 1866
from Feb. 16, 1866
"Danger from a Broken Spine!"
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This editorial argues for a reinstitution of the writ of habeas corpus by drawing on a colorful statement made by President Lincoln in a message sent to General Joe Hooker: “I wouldn’t take any risk of being entangled up the river, like an ox half jumped over a fence and liable to be torn by dogs, front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.” The editorial describes the United States as the metaphorical ox, “stuck fast on the reconstruction thorns.” Published in the Montgomery Daily Mail on February 16, 1866.
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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, item number ADVCOL42. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Montgomery Daily Mail
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February 16, 1866
from Feb. 23, 1866
"Frothy Grandiloquence."
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"Frothy Grandiloquence."
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Editorial criticizing the memorial address delivered by George Bancroft on the birthday of the late President Lincoln. Originally published in The New York World; reprinted in the Montgomery Daily Mail on February 23, 1866.
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FROTHY GRANDILOQUENCE— The New York World speaking of Mr. Rancroft’s attempt to make a “swan of a goose,” and his manner of clothing the most common place feats in mantles of velvet, says:
He has occasion, for example, to say that the only books read by Mr. Lincoln in his boyhood were the Bible, Esop’s Fables, and the Pilgrim’s Progess; but he cannot tell this simple and interesting fact without bedizening and overlaying it without tawdry phrases about Asiatic, Greek, Latin, Medieval, and English literature. Here is Mr. Bancroft’s chaste way of saying it: “Of Asiatic literature he knew only the Bible: of Greek, Latin, and Medieval, no more than Esop’s Fables; of English, John Bunyan’s Pilgram’s Progress.” Did Mr. Bancroft think he was communicating any information, in telling the educated audience he addressed that if young Abraham Lincoln’s three books were classed on so extensive a scale as to include all known literatues, they would be found, on due inquiry, to belong to the divisions he assigns them?
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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, item number ADVCOL42. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Montgomery Daily Mail
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February 23, 1866
from Feb. 23, 1866
"Frothy Grandiloquence."
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Editorial criticizing the memorial address delivered by George Bancroft on the birthday of the late President Lincoln. Originally published in The New York World; reprinted in the Montgomery Daily Mail on February 23, 1866.
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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, item number ADVCOL42. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Montgomery Daily Mail
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February 23, 1866
from Feb. 22, 1866
"A French Criticism on the Bancroft Oration."
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"A French Criticism on the Bancroft Oration."
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Excerpts from a French newspaper, criticizing the memorial address delivered by George Bancroft on the birthday of the late President Lincoln. Published in the Montgomery Daily Mail on February 22, 1866.
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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, item number ADVCOL42. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Montgomery Daily Mail. ""A French Criticism on the Bancroft Oration."". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 23, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/234
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Montgomery Daily Mail
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February 22, 1866
from Feb. 22, 1866
"A French Criticism on the Bancroft Oration."
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Excerpts from a French newspaper, criticizing the memorial address delivered by George Bancroft on the birthday of the late President Lincoln. Published in the Montgomery Daily Mail on February 22, 1866.
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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, item number ADVCOL42. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Montgomery Daily Mail
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February 22, 1866
from Feb. 16, 1866
Commentary on George Bancroft's memorial address
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Brief news item about the memorial address delivered by George Bancroft on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in 1866.
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The address, delivered on February 12, discussed the late president’s plans for the suffrage of African Americans: “…Mr. Lincoln’s wish made only three days before his death, that the elective franchise should only be conferred on very intelligent colored men and those that had served in the U.S. army as soldiers, but that it should be done by the States themselves, and that he never harbored the thought of exacting it from a new government as a condition of its recognition.” Published in the Montgomery Daily Mail on February 16, 1866.
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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, item number ADVCOL42. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Montgomery Daily Mail. "Brief news item about the memorial address delivered by George Bancroft on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in 1866.". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 23, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/232
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Montgomery Daily Mail
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February 16, 1866
from Feb. 16, 1866
Brief news item about the memorial address delivered by George Bancroft on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday in 1866.
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The address, delivered on February 12, discussed the late president’s plans for the suffrage of African Americans: “…Mr. Lincoln’s wish made only three days before his death, that the elective franchise should only be conferred on very intelligent colored men and those that had served in the U.S. army as soldiers, but that it should be done by the States themselves, and that he never harbored the thought of exacting it from a new government as a condition of its recognition.” Published in the Montgomery Daily Mail on February 16, 1866.
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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, item number ADVCOL42. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Montgomery Daily Mail
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February 16, 1866
from Apr. 15, 1866
"The Murder of President Lincoln."
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"The Murder of President Lincoln."
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Report published a year after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, suggesting that John Wilkes Booth was not the real murderer of the president. It also speculates that Booth was not killed in Virginia but rather fled the country after the event. The piece, printed in The Selma Morning Times on April 15, 1866, was originally submitted by a Washington correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune.
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Excerpt from the The Selma Morning Times, item number 24.0046. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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The Selma Morning Times. ""The Murder of President Lincoln."". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 23, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/229
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The Selma Morning Times
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April 15, 1866
from Apr. 15, 1866
"The Murder of President Lincoln."
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Report published a year after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, suggesting that John Wilkes Booth was not the real murderer of the president. It also speculates that Booth was not killed in Virginia but rather fled the country after the event. The piece, printed in The Selma Morning Times on April 15, 1866, was originally submitted by a Washington correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune.
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Excerpt from the The Selma Morning Times, item number 24.0046. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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The Selma Morning Times
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April 15, 1866
from Apr. 28, 1865
"The Face of the Dead"
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The Face of the Dead
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Lincoln was the first President of the United States to be embalmed. His funeral and viewing was done with an open casket, so that in Washington, D.C., and at other stops along the route of the funeral train, citizens could view his body. the funeral train stopped in Cleveland, Ohio on April 28, two weeks after the assassination, where for the first time the casket and catafalque were displayed outdoors. Over 60,000 citizens were reported to have viewed the body during that single day. The next day the Cleveland Morning Leader newspaper reported on the funeral events, including this short article about the countenance of the face of the President. While there are many photographs of the catafalque on display in Cleveland's Public Square, no photographs of Lincoln's body were allowed, so that this direct report provides what we know of how he looked two weeks after his death.
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Cleveland Morning Leader newspaper. "The Face of the Dead". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 23, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/225
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Cleveland Morning Leader newspaper
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April 28, 1865
from Apr. 28, 1865
The Face of the Dead
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Lincoln was the first President of the United States to be embalmed. His funeral and viewing was done with an open casket, so that in Washington, D.C., and at other stops along the route of the funeral train, citizens could view his body. the funeral train stopped in Cleveland, Ohio on April 28, two weeks after the assassination, where for the first time the casket and catafalque were displayed outdoors. Over 60,000 citizens were reported to have viewed the body during that single day. The next day the Cleveland Morning Leader newspaper reported on the funeral events, including this short article about the countenance of the face of the President. While there are many photographs of the catafalque on display in Cleveland's Public Square, no photographs of Lincoln's body were allowed, so that this direct report provides what we know of how he looked two weeks after his death.
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Cleveland Morning Leader newspaper
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April 28, 1865
from Apr. 15, 1865
Proclamation! By Mayor Senter
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Proclamation! By Mayor Senter
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News of Lincoln's death by assassin reached Cleveland via telegraph at 7:30 AM on Saturday April 15, 1865. At 9:00 AM Mayor George B. Senter issued a proclamation to the citizens of Cleveland announcing the "overpowering calamity that has befallen this nation." He asked that all businesses be closed and that all citizens gather on Public Square that afternoon at 3 PM to mourn "the loss of the head of our nation, and its Premiere, Secretary Steward." Steward would survive his attack. Senter had been mayor in 1861 when Lincoln had visited on his way to his inauguration. Less than two weeks later, Public Square would be the site of another gathering of citizens to view the body of the slain President.
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George B. Senter. "Proclamation! By Mayor Senter". City of Cleveland. Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 23, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/221
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George B. Senter
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City of Cleveland
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April 15, 1865
from Apr. 15, 1865
Proclamation! By Mayor Senter
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News of Lincoln's death by assassin reached Cleveland via telegraph at 7:30 AM on Saturday April 15, 1865. At 9:00 AM Mayor George B. Senter issued a proclamation to the citizens of Cleveland announcing the "overpowering calamity that has befallen this nation." He asked that all businesses be closed and that all citizens gather on Public Square that afternoon at 3 PM to mourn "the loss of the head of our nation, and its Premiere, Secretary Steward." Steward would survive his attack. Senter had been mayor in 1861 when Lincoln had visited on his way to his inauguration. Less than two weeks later, Public Square would be the site of another gathering of citizens to view the body of the slain President.
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George B. Senter
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City of Cleveland
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April 15, 1865
from Apr. 21, 1865
"Glorious News. Lincoln and Seward Assassinated!"
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"Glorious News. Lincoln and Seward Assassinated! Lee Defeats Grant. Andy Johnson Inaugurated President."
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Erroneous dispatch originally published in the Demopolis Herald on April 19, 1865 (shown here reprinted in the Alabama Beacon on April 21). While correctly announcing the death of Lincoln and the inauguration of Johnson as president, it reports that Secretary of State Seward was killed as well; in fact, that assassination attempt was not successful. The piece also mentions a rumor from Selma, Alabama, "that Lee and Johnston had effected a junction and whipped Grant soundly. Passengers, wounded soldiers and officers confirm this." The news was sent by the telegraph operator in Meridian, Mississippi.
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[From Demoplis Herald, 19th]
GLORIOUS NEWS.
Lincoln and Seward Assassinated!
LEE DEFEATS GRANT.
Andy Johnson Inaugurated President.
We have been favored with the following private dispatch , which we hasten to lay before our readers, with the hope that it may prove true:
DEMOPOLIS, April 18, 1865 —TO COL. GARNER:—SIR—The operator at Meridian has just telegraphed me that Memphis papers state, over the signature of Secretary Stanton, that Lincoln and Seward were both assassinated the same night at Washington City. Lincoln was shot through the head in the theatre: Seward slain while sick in bed.
Andy Johnson was inaugurated as President of the United States on the 15th.
This is said to be true beyond a doubt.
I inquired particularly from the operator as to whether from the operator as to whether there was anything more in regard to Lee’s capitulation, and he said nothing at all from Northern papers.
A gentlemen just from Selma says it is believed in Selma that Lee and Johnson had effected a junction and whipped Grant soundly. Passengers, wounded soldiers and officers confirm this.
This is given on the authority of the operator at Meridian.
JOHN W. HENLEY, Operator.
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Excerpt from the Alabama Beacon, book number 33.0010. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Alabama Beacon. ""Glorious News. Lincoln and Seward Assassinated! Lee Defeats Grant. Andy Johnson Inaugurated President."". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 23, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/192
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Alabama Beacon
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April 21, 1865
from Apr. 21, 1865
"Glorious News. Lincoln and Seward Assassinated! Lee Defeats Grant. Andy Johnson Inaugurated President."
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Erroneous dispatch originally published in the Demopolis Herald on April 19, 1865 (shown here reprinted in the Alabama Beacon on April 21). While correctly announcing the death of Lincoln and the inauguration of Johnson as president, it reports that Secretary of State Seward was killed as well; in fact, that assassination attempt was not successful. The piece also mentions a rumor from Selma, Alabama, "that Lee and Johnston had effected a junction and whipped Grant soundly. Passengers, wounded soldiers and officers confirm this." The news was sent by the telegraph operator in Meridian, Mississippi.
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Excerpt from the Alabama Beacon, book number 33.0010. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Alabama Beacon
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April 21, 1865
from Jul. 3, 1865
"Mr. Davis and the Assassination."
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"Mr. Davis and the Assassination."
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Brief report of Jefferson Davis's response to the death of President Lincoln: "Mr. Davis said that he deplored the event, and trusted that an investigation would prove that no Southern man had any connection with it." Originally published in the Lynchburg Virginian; reprinted in the Montgomery Daily Post on July 3, 1865.
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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, book number ADVCOL39. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Montgomery Daily Post. ""Mr. Davis and the Assassination."". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 23, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/211
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Montgomery Daily Post
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July 3, 1865
from Jul. 3, 1865
"Mr. Davis and the Assassination."
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Brief report of Jefferson Davis's response to the death of President Lincoln: "Mr. Davis said that he deplored the event, and trusted that an investigation would prove that no Southern man had any connection with it." Originally published in the Lynchburg Virginian; reprinted in the Montgomery Daily Post on July 3, 1865.
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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, book number ADVCOL39. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Montgomery Daily Post
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July 3, 1865
from May. 1, 1865
"Further Particulars of the Washington Tragedy."
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"Further Particulars of the Washington Tragedy."
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Dispatches reporting events after the assassination of President Lincoln. They give details about the attacks on the presidents and Secretary of State Seward; Lincoln's death and Seward's recovery; the inauguration of President Johnson; the surrender of Confederate forces to General Sherman; and the capture of John Wilkes Booth. The reports were reprinted in the Montgomery Daily Mail on May 1, 1865.
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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, book number ADVCOL39. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Montgomery Daily Mail. ""Further Particulars of the Washington Tragedy."". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed May 23, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/210
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Montgomery Daily Mail
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May 1, 1865
from May. 1, 1865
"Further Particulars of the Washington Tragedy."
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Dispatches reporting events after the assassination of President Lincoln. They give details about the attacks on the presidents and Secretary of State Seward; Lincoln's death and Seward's recovery; the inauguration of President Johnson; the surrender of Confederate forces to General Sherman; and the capture of John Wilkes Booth. The reports were reprinted in the Montgomery Daily Mail on May 1, 1865.
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Excerpt from the Montgomery Daily Mail, book number ADVCOL39. Catalog record for this title is available here.
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Montgomery Daily Mail
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May 1, 1865