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Resolutions Passed on the Death of President Lincoln

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April 22, 1865 edition of Brooklyn's The Home Circle which prints the resolutions passed by the local council regarding Abraham Lincoln's death.

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Library of Congress, Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, portfolio 6, no. 5

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The Home Circle. "Resolutions Passed on the Death of President Lincoln". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/761

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The Home Circle

Date

April 22, 1865

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The Nation Mourns a Father Slain

Description

Printed in Philadelphia, this broadside declares, "The nation mourns a father slain! We loved him living. We revere him dead."

Source

Library of Congress, Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, portfolio 13, no. 15

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Loag, Printer., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "The Nation Mourns a Father Slain". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/760

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Loag, Printer., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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"Remember Lincoln!"

Description

Advertisement for a memorial service to honor and mourn Abraham Lincoln in Boston.

Source

Library of Congress, Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, portfolio 6, no. 2 Stern catalog 4771

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Press Print, Boston, Massachusetts. ""Remember Lincoln!"". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/759

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Press Print, Boston, Massachusetts

Date

June 1, 1865

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Treasury Department Ordinance

Description

The Treasury Department orders all officers and others to wear mourning crepe around their arms in honor of Lincoln.

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Washington, April 17, 1865

It is hearby ordered that, in honor to the memory of our late illustrious Chief Magistrate, all officers and others subject to the orders of the Secretary of Treasury, wear crape upon the left arm for the period of six months.


H. McCulloch
Secretary of the Treasury


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

Source

Library of Congress, Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, portfolio 2, no. 15 Stern catalog 4758

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Treasury Department. "Treasury Department Ordinance". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/758

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Treasury Department

Date

April 17, 1865

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"The Great Tragedy"

Description

The Richmond Whig recounts the assassination and describes the feeling of mourning that pervaded the capital and the nation. It includes an excerpt from a witness at Ford's Theatre.

Source

Library of Congress, Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, portfolio 5

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The Richmond Whig. ""The Great Tragedy"". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/757

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The Richmond Whig

Date

April 20, 1865

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"A Nation Weeps"

Description

Chicago's Voice of the Fair prints this eulogy to Abraham Lincoln, saying "We loved him living. [...] We revere him dead."

Source

Library of Congress, Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, portfolio 7

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Voice of the Fair. ""A Nation Weeps"". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/756

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Voice of the Fair

Date

April 27, 1865

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"A Monument to the Martyr President in Baltimore"

Description

Edition of the American and Commercial Advertiser that announces a monument to President Lincoln and reprints the award offered for the assassin.

Source

Library of Congress, Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, portfolio 6, no. 12

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American and Commercial Advertiser. ""A Monument to the Martyr President in Baltimore"". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/750

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American and Commercial Advertiser

Date

April 21, 1865

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Foreign Minister Earl Russell to Minister Charles Francis Adams

Description

A letter from Earl Russell, Foreign Minister of the United Kingdom, to Charles Francis Adams, U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom, acknowledging receipt of the official news of Lincoln's assassination and expressing his government's condolences.

Transcription

“Foreign Minister Earl Russell to Minister Charles Francis Adams”
Read. 2^[[d]] May, 1865.
Foreign Office
May 1. 1865.

Sir,
I have had the honour to receive
your note of this day’s date, officially
communicating to me the mealancholy
intelligence of the death, by the
hand of an assassin, of the Late
President of the United States.

When the first intelligence of
this had calamity reached this
country I [[convade]] to you by letter
and in person the deep impression
of horror and indignation which

Thanks Francis Adams Log
so atrocious a crime on the [[person]]
of the President of the United States
had made upon me and on the [[general]]
members of Her Majesty’s Government;
And it only [[remains]] for me now,
[[by]] acknowledging your letter, &
[[acquaint]] you that, by the command
of the Queen, I have directed Her
Majesty's Minister at Washington
to [[conoly]] to the government of the of the
United States the appearance that
Her Majesty sincerely condoles with
the family of the late President, and
that Her
Her Majesty’s Government and the
British Parliament and the British
Nation are affected by an unanimous
feeling of abhorrence of the
criminal guilty of this cowardly
and atrocious assassination, and
of their sympathy with the
Government and People of the
United States under the [[freak]]
calamity which has befallen them.
I have the honor to be with the
[[highest]] [[consideration]],
Sir,
Your [[British]] President,
Humble Servant,

Russell

[Transcription by: Alexis Ennis, Rachel Engl’s class, Lehigh University.]

Source

Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, FOTH 3369, and National Archives, Record Group 84

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John Russell, First Earl Russell. "Foreign Minister Earl Russell to Minister Charles Francis Adams". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/747

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John Russell, First Earl Russell

Date

May 1, 1865

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Charles Francis Adams to Foreign Minister Earl Russell

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Letterbook copy of dispatch from Charles Francis Adams, U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom, to John Russell, First Earl Russell, Foreign Minister of the United Kingdom, informing him of Lincoln's assassination.

Source

Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, and National Archives, Record Group 84

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Charles Francis Adams. "Charles Francis Adams to Foreign Minister Earl Russell". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/746

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Charles Francis Adams

Date

May 1, 1865

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"The Last of the Earth. The Greatest Demonstration Ever Made on the Pacific Coast"

Description

April 20, 1865 edition of San Francisco's Daily Alta in which the article describes the funeral obsequies performed for Lincoln.

Source

Library of Congress Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana, portfolio 6, no. 4

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Daily Alta. ""The Last of the Earth. The Greatest Demonstration Ever Made on the Pacific Coast"". Remembering Lincoln. Web. Accessed June 15, 2025. https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/742

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Daily Alta

Date

April 20, 1865