Mourning Lincoln (50 page)

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businesses closing:
John Worthington to Mary Worthington, Cooperstown, N.Y., Apr. 15, 1865, Autograph File, HLH; Ruth Anne Hillborn journal, Apr. 15, 1865, Hillborn Papers, FHL; Frank O. French to Benjamin Brown French, Reading, Mass., Apr. 23, 1865, French Papers, LC;
$100,000:
Anne Baldwin to Charlotte Nettleton, New York, Apr. 17, 1865 (part of Apr. 16 letter), Nettleton-Baldwin Family Papers, Duke;
badges:
Abigail Williams May to Eleanor Goddard May, Washington, D.C., Apr. 22, 1865, May and Goddard
Family Papers, SL; Charles Edward French diary, Apr. 19, 1865, French Diaries and Papers, MHS.

Crape
is the nineteenth-century spelling.

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if you:
Edwin Greble Sr. to Susan Greble, Baltimore, Apr. 16, 1865, Greble Papers, LC;
buildings, miles:
Charles A. Sanford to Edward Payson Goodrich, Washington, D.C., Apr. 18, 1865, in “Two Letters” n.p.;
I had:
Elizabeth Blair Lee to Samuel Phillips Lee, Washington, D.C., Apr. 15, 1865, in
Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee
, ed. Virginia Jean Laas (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), 495;
posh, poor:
Gideon Welles diary, Apr. 18, 1865, Welles Papers, LC;
African Americans:
Jane Swisshelm to
St. Cloud Democrat
, Washington, D.C., Apr. 17, 1865 (published Apr. 27, 1865), in Larsen,
Crusader and Feminist
, 288;
on and on:
Julia Adelaide Shepard to father, near Washington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1865, in “Lincoln’s Assassination,” 918.

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flags:
Otis Norcross diary, Apr. 15, 1865, MHS; Edwin Greble Sr. to Susan Greble, Baltimore, Apr. 16, 1865, Greble Papers, LC;
half yard:
Asa Fitch diary, Apr. 18, 1865, Fitch Papers, Yale-Sterling;
shawl:
Elizabeth Rogers Mason Cabot diary, Apr. 18, 1865, MHS;
widows:
John Wolcott Phelps to John Hickman, Brattleboro, Vt., Apr. 24, 1865, Phelps Papers, NYPL;
lace:
Elon N. Lee to family, Chicago, Apr. 19, 1865, ts., Lee and Bastin Papers, Chicago;
rags:
Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas, eds.,
The Diary of George Templeton Strong: The Civil War, 1860–1865
(New York: Macmillan, 1952), 588 (Apr. 18, 1865, entry);
servants:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, Apr. 18, 1865, MHS;
Winter Garden:
Ellen Kean to Mary Kean, New York, Apr. 16, 1865, in
Death and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln
, 17;
hammers:
“Cornelia” to parent(s), New York, Apr. 17–19, 1865, Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscripts, NYHS;
fringed:
Emmeline Yelland to Albert Yelland, Galena, Ill., May 1, 1865, Yelland Family Correspondence, Duke.

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Charleston:
Fox,
Record of the Service of the Fifty-Fifth Regiment
, 74–75 (Apr. 19, 1865, diary entry);
New Orleans:
Testimony of Susan Jones and Eliza Spriggs, in Patrick Shields, file OO934, RG153-NARA;
bit, badges:
S. W. Magill to “Secretaries A.M.A.,” Savannah, Ga., May 8, 1865, #19368, reel 30, AMA;
rosettes:
Schwartz,
Woman Doctor’s Civil War
, 134 (Apr. 19, 1865, entry);
bonnet:
Laura Towne to unknown, Saint Helena Island, S.C., Apr. 29, 1865, in Holland,
Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne
, 162;
travel:
Manning Ferguson Force diary, Apr. 23, 1865, Force Papers, LC;
trade:
Rose Pickard to Byron Flagg, Alexandria, Va., Apr. 15, 1865 (part of Apr. 14 letter), Pickard Papers, LC.

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saviour:
John C. Brock, “Death of the President,”
Christian Recorder
, May 6, 1865;
result:
Schwartz,
Woman Doctor’s Civil War
, 139 (May 2, 1865, entry);
masters, government, slaves:
T. Edwin Ruggles to Charles P. Ware, Saint Helena Island, S.C., May 6, 1865, Charles Pickard Ware Collection, Howard;
slaves:
Alonzo A. Carr to brother and sister, Beaufort, S.C., Apr. 21, 1865, Cynthia Anthonsen Foster Papers, SL.

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we felt:
Ruth [no last name], “Chicago Correspondence,” Chicago, May 3, 1865,
Christian Recorder
, published May 20, 1865;
stricken:
“From Our Indiana Corresponding Editor,” New Albany, Ind., Apr. 17, 1865,
Christian Recorder
, published Apr. 29, 1865;
visions:
George Comfort to Samuel Comfort, Morrisville, Pa., Apr. 16, 1865, Comfort Papers, Princeton;
groping:
Anna M. Ferris diary, Apr. 16, 1865, Ferris Family Papers, FHL;
evil:
Freeman Bradford to Charles Harris, Auburn, Me., Apr. 15, 1865, Emerson Family Papers, Yale-Beinecke.

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froze:
Sarah Browne to Albert Browne, Salem, Mass., Apr. 20, 1865, both letters of this date, BFP.

1
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overcome:
Garland H. White, “Letter from Richmond,” City Point, Va., Apr. 12, 1865,
Christian Recorder
, published Apr. 22, 1865.

2
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in spite, sobbing:
Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas, eds.,
The Diary of George Templeton Strong: The Civil War, 1860–1865
(New York: Macmillan, 1952), 586 (Apr. 16, 1865, entry);
scarcely:
Julia Anna Hartness Lay diary, Apr. 15, 1865, NYPL;
in camp:
A.B., “Camp William Penn,” Chelton Hill, Pa., Apr. 21, 1865,
Christian Recorder
, published Apr. 28, 1865;
grasped:
Ruth Anne Hillborn journal, Apr. 15, 1865, Hillborn Papers, FHL;
wiping:
Mary Elizabeth Moore to James Otis Moore, Saco, Me., Apr. 15, 1865, Moore Papers, Duke;
violent:
“Meetings of Americans in Foreign Countries,” in B. F. Morris,
Memorial Record of the Nation’s Tribute to Abraham Lincoln
(Washington, D.C.: W. H. and O. H. Morrison, 1865), 260.

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not ashamed:
Lydia Stark to Franklin W. Fuller, Baldwinsville, N.Y., Apr. 23, 1865, #03523.42.56, GLC-NYHS;
clerks:
Emily Watkins to Abiathar Watkins, Jersey City, N.J., Apr. 16, 1865, Watkins Papers, NYPL;
unusual:
“Rev. Mr. Allison,” in
In Memoriam; Abraham Lincoln Assassinated at Washington, April 14, 1865, Being a Brief Account of the Proceedings … at Buffalo, N.Y
. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Matthews and Warren, 1865), 36;
cursed:
James S. Knox to father, Washington, D.C., Apr. 15, 1865, ser. 3: General Correspondence, Abraham Lincoln Papers, LC, available at memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alser.html;
no shame:
Charles A. Sanford to Edward Payson Goodrich, Washington, D.C., Apr. 15, 1865, in “Two Letters on the Event of April 14, 1865,”
Bulletin of the William L. Clements Library of American History
47 (Feb. 12, 1946), facsimile, n.p.;
impossible:
unknown writer, Apr. 15, 1865, #193, Thomas B. Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, LC;
never wept:
[illegible] to mother, “Potomac River,” Apr. 23, 1865, ts., Nathaniel H. Harris Papers, SHC.

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child:
Ruth Anne Hillborn journal, Apr. 15, 1865, Hillborn Papers, FHL;
like children:
Henry Hitchcock to Mary Hitchcock, “Chesapeake Bay,” Apr. 22, 1865, Hitchcock Papers, LC;
strong:
Julia Adelaide Shepard to father, near Washington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1865, in “Lincoln’s Assassination Told by an Eye-Witness,”
Century Magazine
77 (1909), 917–18;
fountain:
Anson G. Henry to wife, Washington, D.C., Apr. 19, 1865, ts., box 4, fol. 8, Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Chicago.

1
. Dorman diary, Apr. 23, 1865.
New York Herald
, Apr. 15, 1865. This edition has been widely reproduced in an altered form; the original bears no portrait of Lincoln on the front page.

merry:
Justus M. Silliman to brother, Jacksonville, Fla., Apr. 24, 1865, in
A New Canaan Private in the Civil War: Letters of Justus M. Silliman, 17th Connecticut Volunteers
, ed. Edward Marcus (New Canaan, Conn.: New Canaan Historical Society, 1984), 100.

2
. Dorman diary, Apr. 25, 1865.

3
. Dorman diary, May 6 (habeas corpus, brains), 26 (hanging), 30 (treason), 23 (deserved), 1865.

4
. Dorman diary, Apr. 25 (rags, sycophantic), May 26 (fool or insane), 1865;
mourners:
W. B. Johnson, “From the Third U.S.C. Troops,” Jacksonville, Fla., Apr. 29, 1865,
Christian Recorder
, published May 20, 1865.

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all over:
Oscar Brown Ireland to father, near Berryville, Va., Apr. 18, 1865, Ireland Papers, Duke.

6
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hardly:
“The Assassination of President Lincoln,”
Columbia (S.C.) Phoenix
, Apr. 22, 1865;
poor country:
William Newton Mercer diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Mercer Papers, ser. B,
part 4
, reel 10, LSU-RSPE; William J. Minor plantation diary, Apr. 18, 1865, Minor Family Papers, ser. B,
part 3
, reel 4, LSU-RSPE.

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anarchy:
Francis L’Engle to Edward M. L’Engle, [place illegible], Apr. 29, 1865, L’Engle Papers, SHC.

8
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heard:
John Taylor Wood diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Wood Papers, SHC;
bitter, rumors, confirmed:
Henry A. Chambers diary, Apr. 9, 10, 18, 19, 1865, Chambers Papers, SHC;
unfortunately:
Leonie de Varenne to Mary Susan Ker, New Orleans, Apr. 15, 1865, Ker Papers, ser. A,
part 1
, reel 2, SHC-SWF;
planting:
Nimrod Porter diary, Apr. 17, 1865, Porter Papers, SHC;
troubles:
Louisa G. Mason diary, Apr. 15, 1865, MDHS;
of course:
Emmy Wellford to “Phil,” Richmond, Va., Apr. 20, 1865, John Rutherfoord Papers, ser. H,
part 3
, reel 42, Duke-SWF.

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long:
James Robert McMichael diary, Apr. 20, 1865, ts., SHC;
hiatus:
Mary Jeffreys Bethell diary, May 2, 1865, ts., ser. J, part 13, reel 12, SHC-RSP;
deplorable:
Mrs. J. I. White to “Irene,” “Cottage Chamber,” [Va.], May 13, 1865, Ada P. Bankhead Collection, ser. G,
part 2
, reel 1, UVA-SWF.

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Seward, facts:
William Owner diary, Apr. 7, 15, 1865, LC;
fear:
Marmaduke Shannon to Emma M. Crutcher, Vicksburg, Miss., Apr. 18, 1865 (part of Apr. 14 letter), Crutcher-Shannon Family Papers, ser. F, reel 30, UTA-SWF;
buffoon:
Lucy Muse (Walton) Fletcher diary, Apr. 22, 1865, Fletcher Papers, Duke;
baboon, foul:
C. Vann Woodward, ed.,
Mary Chesnut’s Civil War
(1981; reprint, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), 360, 791, 795 (June 4, 1862, Apr. 22, 23, 1865, entries);
principle:
Francis A. Boyle Books, Apr. 16, 1865, SHC.

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horrible:
Margaret (Brown) Wight diary, Apr. 18, 1865, Wight Family Papers, ser. D,
part 1
, reel 21, VHS-SWF;
liberal:
William H. Bagley to Adelaide Worth, Hertford, N.C., Apr. 28, 1865, Jonathan Worth Papers, ser. A,
part 8
, reel 7, SHC-SWF;
mercy:
Hannah Ford Turner to William Mason Turner, Philadelphia, Apr. 26, 1865, William Mason Turner Papers, Brown;
politically:
David Schenck diary, [June, 1865], SHC, available at
www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/s/Schenck,David.html#d2e89;
know:
James Helme Rickard to sister, [near Richmond, Va.], May 11, 1865, Rickard Civil War Letters, AAS;
hope:
Thomas Day Seymour to Nathan Seymour, Richmond, Va., Apr. 17, 1865, Seymour Family Papers, Yale-Sterling;
lost:
Elizabeth Blair Lee to Samuel Phillips Lee, Washington, D.C., Apr. 15, 1865, in
Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee
, ed. Virginia Jean Laas (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), 495.

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uneasy:
Samuel Pickens diary, Apr. 16, 1865, in
Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia
, ed. G. Ward Hubbs (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003), 372;
guests:
Mahala (Eggleston) Roach diary, Apr. 18, 1865, ser. D,
part 4
, reel 10, VHS-SWF;
uneasy:
Bessie B. Caine to unknown, Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 18, 1865 (part of Apr. 16 letter), John Lancaster Bailey Papers, ser. A,
part 8
, reel 9, SHC-SWF;
mingle:
Chauncey Welton to parents, Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 19, 1865, Welton Papers, SHC;
quiet:
Manley Ebenezer Rice to Elizabeth Day Rice, Fort Gaines, Ala., Apr. 30, 1865, Rice Papers, HL;
secretly:
Samuel Miller Quincy [no salutation], New Orleans, Apr. 19, 1865, Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham Family Papers, MHS.

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native:
Gerald Schwartz, ed.,
A Woman Doctor’s Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks’ Diary
(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1984), 134 (Apr. 19, 1865, entry);
sharp:
Thomas Day Seymour to Nathan Seymour, Richmond, Va., Apr. 17, 1865, Seymour Family Papers, Yale-Sterling;
looking:
Alfred Neafie to Anne Neafie, Savannah, Ga., Apr. 19, 1865, Neafie Papers, NYSL;
mighty:
William C. McLean to sister, Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 23, 1865, ts., McLean Family Papers, NYSL.