Mourning Lincoln (53 page)

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deeper:
Henry Baker, “An Expression by the Colored People of New Orleans,” in
Louisiana’s Tribute to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln … April 22, 1865
(New Orleans: Picayune, 1881), 37;
keenly:
Joseph A. Prime, “Sermon Preached in the Liberty Street Presbyterian Church (Colored),” in
A Tribute of Respect by the Citizens of Troy to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln
(Troy, N.Y.: Young and Benson, 1865), 155;
more than:
Jacob Thomas, “Sermon Preached in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church,” in
Tribute of Respect
, 44;
dusky:
“From Baltimore,”
New York Anglo-African
, May 6, 1865;
people:
“From the Regiments,” letter from Richard H. Black, 3rd U.S.C.T., Fernandina, Fla.,
New York Anglo-African
, May 27, 1865;
personal:
Frederick Douglass, “Our Martyred President: An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 15 April 1865,”
FDP
, ser. 1, 4:76;
colored:
Gideon Welles diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Welles Papers, LC;
white:
J. G. Holland,
The Nation Weeping for Its Dead: Observances at Springfield, Massachusetts, on President Lincoln’s Funeral Day
(Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles, 1865), 25;
intense:
Theodore L. Cuyler, “Sermon IX,” in
Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln: Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. Oration by Hon. Geo. Bancroft, Oration at the Burial, by Bishop Simpson
(New York: Tibbals and Whiting, 1865), 170;
pity:
S. H. Fowler to “Mr. Whiting,” Headley, Mass., Apr. 21, 1865, #57688, reel 91, AMA; see also M. M. Hutchins to “Mr. Whiting,” Dover, N.H., Apr. 17, 1865, #75762, reel 117, AMA (“How the poor Freed-men will mourn”).

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smudging:
Julia Anna Hartness Lay diary, Apr. 16, 1865, NYPL;
sorrowful:
Emily Watkins to Abiathar Watkins, Jersey City, N.J., Apr. 16, 1865, Watkins Papers, NYPL;
horror:
Lindsley,
“Maggie!,”
83 (Apr. 15, 1865, entry);
broke down:
John Worthington to Mary Worthington, Cooperstown, N.Y., Apr. 15, 1865, Autograph File, HLH;
teachers:
Grenville H. Norcross diary, Apr. 16, 1865, AAS;
boys:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, Apr. 16, 1865, MHS.

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scarcely:
Douglass, “Our Martyred President,”
FDP
, ser. 1, 4:76;
none:
“From the Regiments,” letter from Richard H. Black, 3rd U.S.C.T., Fernandina, Fla.,
New York Anglo-African
, May 27, 1865;
sign:
Baker, “An Expression by the Colored People of New Orleans,” in
Louisiana’s Tribute
, 37;
express:
Mary Elizabeth Moore to James Otis Moore, Saco, Me., Apr. 15, 1865, Moore Papers, Duke;
describe:
William L. Mead to Louisa White, Charleston, S.C., Apr. 19, 1865, ts., George Cornwell Correspondence, MDHS;
dull:
Nicholas B. Wainwright, ed.,
A Philadelphia Perspective: The Diary of Sidney George Fisher …, 1834–1871
(Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1967), 492 (Apr. 15, 1865, entry);
wildly:
Edward Peacock to Caroline Dall, [England], Apr. 27, 1865, box 4, Dall Papers, MHS.

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heard:
“Mary” to mother, Norton, Mass., Apr. 16, 1865, Nye Family Papers, Duke;
shake:
Carl Schurz to wife, Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 18, 1865, in
Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz
, 6 vols., ed. Frederic Bancroft (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913), 1:252;
awful:
George E. Ellis diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Ellis Papers, MHS;
Fanny, sad:
Elizabeth R. Child diary, Apr. 3, 16, 1865, Richards-Child Family Papers, MHS.

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not feel:
Margaret B. Howell diary, Apr. 17, 1865, HSP;
so bad:
Holiday Ames to wife, Decatur, Ala., Apr. 23, 1865, in “Waiting for the War’s End: The Letter of an Ohio
Soldier in Alabama,” ed. Louis Filler,
Ohio History
74 (1965), 56;
sleep:
Susannah A. Milner-Gibson to Jane Poultney Bigelow, Folkestone, England, Apr. 28, 1865, Bigelow Family Papers, NYPL;
lightheaded:
John Langdon Sibley diary, Apr. 15, 1865, in “Harvard and the Tragedy of 1865,”
Harvard Alumni Bulletin
42 (1940), 900;
headache:
Winthrop Henry Phelps diary, Apr. 18, 1865, LC;
trembling:
Horace O. Gilmore to Lucy Gilmore, Petersburg, Va., Apr. [15], 1865, Gilmore Papers, NYSL;
prostration:
Edwin Emerson diary, Apr. 27, 1865, Emerson Family Papers, NYPL;
indefinable:
Mary Elizabeth Moore to James Otis Moore, Saco, Me., May 4, 1865, Moore Papers, Duke;
surgeon:
Moses A. Cleveland diary, Apr. 17, 21, 1865, MHS;
forget:
Henry Gawthrop diary, Apr. 16, 1865, DHS.

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new birth:
Abraham Lincoln, “Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg,” Nov. 19, 1863,
CWL
, 7:23.

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Almighty:
Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address,” Mar. 4, 1865,
CWL
, 8:333.

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cannot:
Newton Perkins to mother, New York, Apr. 16, 1865, Montgomery Family Papers, LC;
drifting:
Levi S. Graybill diary, Apr. 17, 1865, Graybill Papers, HL;
atrocity:
Anna M. Ferris diary, Apr. 16, 1865, Ferris Family Papers, FHL;
not shake:
Lydia Maria Child to Sarah Blake Shaw, [no place], Apr. [n.d.], 1865, Child Letters, SL.

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hopeless:
Gideon Welles diary, Apr. 16, 1865, Welles Papers, LC;
consolation:
“Cosmorama,” letter to the editor,
San Francisco Elevator
, May 12, 1865, #4999, BAP;
more:
Thomas, “Sermon Preached in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church,” in
Tribute of Respect
, 46;
hope:
Philip Alexander Bell et al., [no title],
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 21, 1865, #4828, BAP;
Liberty:
Chauncey Leonard to Lorenzo Thomas, Alexandria, Va., Apr. 30, 1865, Letters Received, #287L, M619, roll 374, RG94-NARA.

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all:
Martha Fisher Anderson diary, Apr. 23, 1865, MHS;
doeth, permitted:
William J. Gould diary, Apr. 21, 1865, Gould Papers, LC;
wise:
James Otis Moore to Mary Elizabeth Moore, “Chapel Pt.,” May 7, 1865, Moore Papers, Duke;
unfathomable:
Richard G. Lay to Carrie Lay, “Burks station,” Va., Apr. 19, 1865, Lay Letters, NYPL;
everybody:
Abigail Williams May to Eleanor Goddard May, Boston, Apr. 16, 1865, May and Goddard Family Papers, SL.

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may be:
Douglass, “Our Martyred President,”
FDP
, ser. 1, 4:78;
some way:
W. T. Richardson to George Whipple, Beaufort, S.C., Apr. 21, 1865, #H5576, reel 187, AMA;
doubtless:
Gail Hamilton to “My Dear,” Hamilton, Mass., Apr. 15, 1865, in
Gail Hamilton’s Life in Letters
, 2 vols., ed. H. August Dodge (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1901), 1:495;
cloud:
J. H. Elliot to Robert Anderson, Brattleboro, Vt., Apr. 25, 1865, Anderson Papers, LC.

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stricken:
Minute Book, Apr. 18, 1865, in “Mourning Observance for Abraham Lincoln by the B’nai B’rith Lodge of Marysville, California,”
Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly
1 (1967), 172;
must be:
Mary Ann Starkey to “My dear Friend,” New Bern, N.C., Apr. 20, 1865, Edward W. Kinsley Papers, Duke;
view:
“Rebecca” to Jane Wigglesworth Grew, Boston, Apr. 18, 1865 (part of Apr. 16 letter), Grew Correspondence, MHS;
understand:
Charlotte A. Blech notebook, Apr. 16, 1865, Blech-Meyer-Dowd Papers, SL;
seems:
Georgia Treadway to Newton Perkins, New Haven, Conn., Apr. 16, 1865, Montgomery Family Papers, LC.

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triumph:
Edward Everett Hale to Charles Hale, Boston, Apr. 15, 1865, box 6, Hale Papers, NYSL;
dawn:
James Thomas Ward diary, Apr. 16, 1865, Ward Papers, LC.

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expressed:
Mattie Smith diary, Apr. 16, 1865, CHM.

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where:
Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society
, 6;
O why:
Mary Elizabeth Moore to James Otis Moore, Saco, Me., Apr. 15, 1865, Moore Papers, Duke;
Why did God, O God:
Lindsley,
“Maggie!,”
86, 83 (Apr. 23, 15, 1865, entries).

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God knows:
Henry S. Thacher diary, Apr. 23, 1865, Thacher Family Papers, MHS;
sinfully, lived:
Mary Elizabeth Moore to James Otis Moore, Saco, Me., Apr. 15, 1865, and James Otis Moore to Mary Elizabeth Moore, Washington, D.C., Apr. 20, 1865, Moore Papers, Duke;
trust:
Henry W. Pearce to “Lena,” Marietta, Ohio, Apr. 16, 1865, #00066.150, GLC-NYHS;
save:
H. C. Percy to George Whipple, Norfolk, Va., May 7, 1865, #H1-7112-16, reel 210, AMA.

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freedom:
“Cosmorama,” letter to the editor,
San Francisco Elevator
, May 12, 1865, #4999, BAP;
nation:
Douglass, “Our Martyred President,”
FDP
, ser. 1, 4:76;
inspire:
Montgomery Blair to Samuel L. M. Barlow, Washington, D.C., Apr. 18, 1865, box 56, Barlow Papers, HL;
seal:
Wendell Phillips, “The Lesson of President Lincoln’s Death: A Speech of Wendell Phillips at the Tremont Temple, on Sunday Evening, April 23, 1865,” in
Universal Suffrage, and Complete Equality in Citizenship, the Safeguards of Democratic Institutions
(Boston: Rand and Avery, 1865), 14.

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killed:
Harriet Anne Severance diary, Apr. 16, 1865, SL;
who:
Elizabeth Rogers Mason Cabot diary, Apr. 15, 1865, MHS;
why:
“Em” to Lewis J. Nettleton, Milford, Conn., Apr. 19, 1865, Nettleton-Baldwin Family Papers, Duke;
reconcile:
Mary Elizabeth Moore to James Otis Moore, Saco, Me., Apr. 16, 1865, Moore Papers, Duke;
slight:
Edgar Dinsmore to Carrie Drayton, Saint Andrews Parish, S.C., May 29, 1865, Dinsmore Papers, Duke.

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anxiety:
William Lloyd Garrison Jr. to Martha Coffin Wright, Boston, Apr. 25, 1865, box 56, Garrison Family Papers, SSC;
providential:
Evander C. Kennedy to mother, Petersburg, Va., May 1, 1865, Kennedy Letters, MHS;
weak:
Mary Elizabeth Moore to James Otis Moore, Saco, Me., Apr. 16, 1865, Moore Papers, Duke.

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wonderful:
Lydia Maria Child to Sarah Blake Shaw, [no place], Apr. [n.d.], 1865, Child Letters, SL;
lenient:
David Homer Bates diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Bates Papers, LC;
policy:
Anna M. Ferris diary, Apr. 16, 1865, Ferris Family Papers, FHL;
star:
Phillips, “Lesson of President Lincoln’s Death,” 14–15.

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sometimes:
editorial,
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 21, 1865, #4827, BAP;
cast off:
J. S. Smith to “My Dear Sir,” Buchanan, Liberia, Aug. 11, 1865, Incoming Correspondence, Letters from Liberia, box I: B13, reel 160, American Colonization Society Papers, LC;
sorry, honest:
Ellis Hughes diary, Apr. 23, 19, 1865, Hughes-Gray Family Papers, Duke.

Robert S. Harper writes that northern newspapers “poured forth a torrent of adulation and eulogy” and that it was “no longer possible to determine the politics of a newspaper by what it said about Lincoln”; see
Lincoln and the Press
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951), 352.

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prepared:
John Glenn diary, Apr. 17, 1865, Glenn Papers, MDHS;
disgusted:
William Kauffman Scarborough, ed.,
The Diary of Edmund Ruffin: A Dream Shattered, June, 1863–June, 1865
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989), 859 (Apr. 21, 1865, entry);
noble:
Chauncey Welton to parents, Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 19, 1865, Welton Papers, SHC.

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immortal:
Henry S. Thacher diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Thacher Family Papers, MHS;
statesman:
Evander C. Kennedy to mother, Petersburg, Va., May 1, 1865, Kennedy Letters, MHS;
memorial:
J. N. Whitney to B. F. Whitten, Raymond, Me., Apr. 15, 1865, box 2, Miscellaneous Documents Relating to Abraham Lincoln, HLH;
savior:
John Greenleaf Whittier to F. W. Lincoln, Amesbury, Mass., May, 22, 1865, John Greenleaf Whittier Manuscript Collection, FHL;
man:
Charles Edward French diary, Apr. 23, 1865, French Diaries and Papers, MHS;
liberty:
Alonzo A. Carr to brother and sister, Beaufort, S.C., Apr. 21, 1865, Cynthia Anthonsen Foster Papers, SL;
live on:
James Williams to sister, New York, May 6, 1865, Simon Gratz Autograph Collection, HSP;
Moses, elevation:
Philip Alexander Bell et al., [no title], and editorial, both in
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 21, 1865, #4828, 4827, BAP;
Moses:
Thomas, “Sermon Preached in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church,” in
Tribute of Respect
, 45;
beautiful:
Mary Elizabeth Moore to James Otis Moore, Saco, Me., Apr. 16, 1865, James Otis Moore Papers, Duke.