Mourning Lincoln (54 page)

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degree:
editorial,
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 21, 1865, #4827, BAP;
more:
P. B. S. Nichuston [?] to George Whipple, Roanoke Island, N.C., Apr. 22, 1865, #100001, reel 169, AMA;
died:
Laura Towne to unknown, Saint Helena Island, S.C., Apr. 29, 1865, in
Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne: Written from the Sea Islands of South Carolina, 1862–1884
, ed. Rupert Sargent Holland (1912; reprint, New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969), 162;
mankind:
[illegible] to mother, “Potomac River,” Apr. 23, 1865, Nathaniel H. Harris Papers, SHC;
no equal:
Robert H. Williams to David and Carrie Thurber, City Point, Va., Apr. 29, 1865, Goff-Williams Papers, HL.

37
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benefit:
“Our Domestic Correspondence,” letter from H. O. Waggner, Chicago, Apr. 16, 1865,
New York Anglo-African
, published Apr. 29, 1865;
dark:
James Freeman Clarke, “Who Hath Abolished Death,” in
Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
(Boston: J. E. Tilton, 1865), 92, 100;
crucifixion:
Montgomery Blair to Samuel L. M. Barlow, Washington, D.C., Apr. 18, 1865, box 56, Barlow Papers, HL;
killed:
Cuyler, “Sermon IX,” in
Our Martyr President
, 171;
dead:
C. L. Woodworth to M. E. Strieby, Amherst, Mass., Apr. 17, 1865, #57681, reel 91, AMA.

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250:
John Wesley Marshall diary, Apr. 20, 1865, LC;
jumping:
William J. Gould diary, Apr. 22, 25, 1865, Gould Papers, LC;
hope:
Garland H. White to William H. Seward, City Point, Va., Apr. [n.d.], 1865, William H. Seward Papers, University of Rochester (I thank Christopher Hager, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., for transcribing and sharing this document);
aside:
George Gaskell to sister, Plaquemine, La., Apr. 23, 1865, ts. box 86, fol. 9, Materials Unrelated to Spanish American War, Spanish-American War Veterans Survey Collection, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pa.;
though:
Douglass, “Our Martyred President,”
FDP
, ser. 1, 4:76.

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calamity:
John B. Burrud to Ocena Burrud, Washington, D.C., Apr. 25–27, 1865,
Burrud Papers, HL;
full:
Samuel Foster Haven to Caroline Dall, Worcester, Mass., May 2, 1865, box 4, Dall Papers, MHS;
nation:
William Boardman Richards diary, Apr. 16, 1865, Richards Family Papers, MHS.

40
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headache:
Edward Everett Hale diary, Apr. 24, 1865, box 54, Hale Papers, NYSL;
tired, heart:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, Apr. 18, 23, 1865, MHS;
not:
Rudolph Rey to Lizzie DeVoe, near Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 29, 1865, Rey Letters, NYHS;
hang:
Elizabeth Blackwell to Barbara Bodichon, New York, May 23, 1865, Blackwell Letters, Columbia.

41
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bow:
M. R. Delany, “Monument to President Lincoln,” Charleston, S.C., Apr. 20, 1865,
Christian Recorder
, published May 20, 1865;
even:
Lydia Maria Child to John Greenleaf Whittier, May 1865, fragment, Child Letters, SL.

1
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never:
Henry J. Peck to Mary Peck, Burkeville Junction, Va., Apr. 20, 1865, Peck Correspondence, NYSL;
good:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, Apr. 15, 1865, MHS.

2
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fought:
Theodore Lyman diary, Apr. 15, 1865, ts., Lyman Papers, MHS;
no man:
Frederick A. Sawyer, “Account of what I saw of the Death of Mr. Lincoln written April 15, 1865,” in “An Eyewitness Account of Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination,” ed. Ronald D. Rietveld,
Civil War History
22 (1976), 68;
raised:
Josephine E. Strong to M. E. Strieby, Portsmouth, Va., May 3, 1865, #8853, reel 15 (misfiled with Connecticut), AMA.

3
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personally:
Anne Baldwin to Charlotte Nettleton, New York, Apr. 16, 1865, Nettle-ton-Baldwin Family Papers, Duke;
dear:
Annie P. Chadwick diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Chadwick Family Papers, NYSL;
beloved:
“New York,” letter to the editor,
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 28, 1865, #4917, BAP;
us of:
George Gaskell to sister, Plaquemine, La., Apr. 23, 1865, ts., box 86, fol. 9, Materials Unrelated to Spanish American War, Spanish-American War Veterans Survey Collection, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pa.;
kindred:
“From the Regiments,” letter from “M.F.,” 11th U.S. Heavy Artillery, Fort Banks, La., Apr. 12 [sic], 1865,
New York Anglo-African
, published May 20, 1865;
could not:
J. Harry Keyes to Sarah Ogden, City Point, Va., Apr. 30, 1865, #06559.060, GLC-NYHS;
everywhere:
Lucy McKim to Wendell Phillips Garrison, Philadelphia, Apr. 17, 1865, box 49, Garrison Family Papers, SSC;
private:
William Lloyd Garrison Jr. to Martha Coffin Wright, Roxbury, Mass., Apr. 16, 1865, box 56, Garrison Family Papers, SSC;
almost:
Mattie Smith diary, Apr. 16, 1865, CHM.

4
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mighty:
Charles Barnard Fox,
Record of the Service of the Fifty-Fifth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
(Cambridge, Mass.: John Wilson, 1868), 75 (Apr. 19, 1865, diary entry);
claimed:
Franklin Boyts to Hiram Boyts, Washington, D.C., Apr. 17, 1865, in Boyts diary, HSP;
orphans:
Caroline Barrett White diary, May 14, 1865, White Papers, AAS;
could not:
Harry S. Rimhold to George W. Hensel, Philadelphia, Apr. 15, 1865, box 2, Miscellaneous Documents Relating to Abraham Lincoln, HLH;
sorrowfully:
Mary Ingham Emerson diary, May 28, 1865, Emerson Family Papers, NYPL;
father and mother:
P. B. S. Nichuston [?] to George Whipple, Roanoke Island, N.C., Apr. 22, 1865, #100001, reel 169, AMA.

5
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rather die:
Emory M. Thomas,
Robert E. Lee: A Biography
(New York: W. W. Norton,
1995), 362; Thomas writes, “Surrender was death raised to an enormous power” (366);
illustrious:
William H. Ellis diary, Apr. 12, 1865, Ellis Papers, ser. B, reel 5, LSU-CMM;
dear:
Mary (Cabell) Early diary, Apr. 9, 1865, Early Family Papers, ser. D,
part 3
, reel 14, VHS-SWF.

1
. Sarah Browne diary, Apr. 15, 1865 (unparalleled); Sarah Browne to Albert Browne, Salem, Mass., Apr. 20, 1865 (enough, fathers), both BFP.

2
. Albert Browne to “Dear Ones,” Charleston, S.C., Apr. 21, 1865 (dastardly, tree, savage, serpent, heap); Albert Browne to “Dear Ones,” off Georgetown, S.C., Apr. 25, 1865 (deluded, extermination), both BFP.

3
. Dorman diary, May 6 (molest), 7 (beshit; this is an oft-repeated phrase in the diary), July 10 (Booth), 1865.

4
. Dorman diary, May 7 (benevolent, instances, barbarity, force, double), 12 (servants, blaming abolitionists), 23 (beyond); on blaming abolitionists, see also Apr. 16, May 16, 1865.

5
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wrath:
Manning Ferguson Force diary, Apr. 17, 1865, Force Papers, LC.

6
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honor:
Sarah Browne to Albert Browne, Salem, Mass., Apr. 20, 1865, one of two letters of this date, BFP;
mixed:
J. Madison Bell, “Poem: In commemoration of the death of Abraham Lincoln, delivered at the great Public Meeting of Colored Citizens,”
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 21, 1865, #4831 BAP;
amazement:
“Rebecca” to Jane Wigglesworth Grew, Boston, Apr. 16, 1865, Grew Correspondence, MHS;
fired:
Lucy Pierce Hedge to Charlotte Hedge, Brookline, Mass., Apr. 18, 1865, Poor Family Papers, SL;
crushed:
Mary Butler Reeves to Caroline Butler Laing, Germantown, Pa., Apr. 16, 1865, Butler-Laing Family Papers, NYHS;
wild:
David Homer Bates diary, Apr. 16, 1865, Bates Papers, LC;
hatred:
Alfred Neafie to Anne Neafie, Savannah, Ga., Apr. 19, 1865, Neafie Papers, NYSL.

7
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oath:
Joseph Warren Keifer to Eliza Keifer, Burkeville, Va. Apr. 15, 1865, Keifer Papers, LC;
forgiven:
A. J. Hamilton,
A Fort Delaware Journal: The Diary of a Yankee Private
, ed. W. Emerson Wilson (Wilmington: Fort Delaware Society, 1981), 79 (Apr. 15, 1865, entry);
preparing:
Mary Bushnell Cheney to Francis Louise Bushnell, [Hartford, Conn.?], Apr. 15, 1865, ts., Cheney Family Papers, SSC;
murderous:
Henry Cornwall to Lewis J. Nettleton, Milford, Conn., Apr. 16, 1865, Nettleton-Baldwin Family Papers, Duke;
infernal:
James Otis Moore to Mary Elizabeth Moore, “Potomac River,” Apr. 19, 1865, Moore Papers, Duke;
caps:
Heber Painter to Rebecca Frick, Richmond, Va., Apr. 17, 1865 (part of Apr. 16 letter), #02016.082, GLC-NYHS.

8
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a man:
John N. Ferguson diary, Apr. 17, 1865, LC;
spirit:
Newton Perkins to mother, New York, Apr. 16, 1865, Montgomery Family Papers, LC;
butchered:
anonymous Union soldier to parents, Burkeville, Va., Apr. 18, 1865, #08618, GLC-NYHS;
kill:
Samuel Miller Quincy [no salutation], New Orleans, Apr. 20, 1865 (part of Apr. 19 letter), Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham Family Papers, MHS.

9
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just:
Jane Swisshelm to
St. Cloud Democrat
, Washington, D.C., Apr. 17, 1865 (published Apr. 27, 1865), in
Crusader and Feminist: Letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858–1865
, ed.
Arthur J. Larsen (Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1934), 287;
forgotten, don’t let:
Manning Ferguson Force diary, Apr. 18, 1865; Manning Ferguson Force to “Mr. Kebler” [?], Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 20, 1865; Manning Ferguson Force to “Mrs. Perkins,” Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 21, 1865 (letters copied into journal), Force Papers, LC;
wish:
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), 1:253;
surrender:
“Tom” to mother, Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 19, 1865, box 2, Miscellaneous Documents Relating to Abraham Lincoln, HLH;
prolonged:
anonymous Union soldier to parents, Burkeville, Va., Apr. 18, 1865, #08618, GLC-NYHS;
better:
Franklin Augustus Buck to Mary Sewall Bradley, Weaverville, Calif., Apr. 27, 1865, Buck Papers, HL.

10
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driven:
“From the Regiments,” letter from Richard H. Black, 3rd U.S.C.T., Fernandina, Fla.,
New York Anglo-African
, May 27, 1865;
burn:
Edward J. Bartlett to Martha Bartlett, South Side Railroad, Va., Apr. 16, 1865, Bartlett Letters, MHS;
sory:
Chauncey Welton to parents, Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 19, 1865, Welton Papers, SHC;
slay:
Newton Perkins to mother, New York, Apr. 16, 1865, Montgomery Family Papers, LC;
Attila:
Carl Schurz to wife, Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 18, 1865, in Bancroft,
Speeches, Correspondence
, 1:253.

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extirminate:
George W. Squier to Ellen Squier, Chattanooga, Tenn., Apr. 15, 1865, in
This Wilderness of War: The Civil War Letters of George W. Squier, Hoosier Volunteer
, ed. Julie A. Doyle et al. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998), 104;
no more:
H. Worthey Hooper to William Schouler, Georgetown, S.C., Apr. 27, 1865, vol. 1, Letters Sent, Records of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (Colored), M1659, roll 1, RG94-NARA;
badly:
Henry J. Peck to Mary Peck, Richmond, Va., May 1, 1865, Peck Correspondence, NYSL;
extermination:
Alonzo Pickard to Byron Flagg, Alexandria, Va., Apr. 17, 1865, part of Rose Pickard to Byron Flagg, Apr. 14, 1865, Pickard Papers, LC;
shoot:
William E. Park to “Mr. Newton” (addendum to cousin), Fort Spanish, Ala., Apr. 21, 1865, #01545.05, GLC-NYHS;
willing:
Francis G. Barnes to Frances M. Barnes, near Mobile, Ala., May 19, 1865, ts., p. 365, Barnes Letters, NYSL.

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mutterings:
J. Thoman to “Henrietta,” Washington, D.C., Apr. 15, 1865, in Thomas F. Schwartz, “Grief, Souvenirs, and Enterprise following Lincoln’s Assassination,”
Illinois Historical Journal
83 (1990), 261;
lieutenant:
Henry Robinson Berkeley diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Berkeley Papers, ser. A, reel 2, VHS-CMM;
very hard:
Allen H. Babcock diary, Apr. 18, 1865, Babcock Papers, NYSL;
get up:
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;
guards:
Edward W. Benham to Jennie Benham, Goldsboro, N.C., Apr. 20, 1865, ts., Benham Papers, Duke;
vent:
Carl Schurz to wife, Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 18, 1865, in Bancroft,
Speeches, Correspondence
, 1:253, and on this incident, see also Chauncey Welton to parents, Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 19, 1865, Welton Papers, SHC, and Henry Hitchcock to Mary Hitchcock, “Chesapeake Bay,” Apr. 22, 1865, Hitchcock Papers, LC.

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hardly:
Franklin Boyts to Hiram Boyts, Washington, D.C., Apr. 17, 1865, in Boyts diary, HSP;
burn:
Newton T. Colby to Merrill Colby, Washington, D.C., Apr. 15, 1865, in
The Civil War Papers of Lt. Colonel Newton T. Colby, New York Infantry
, ed. William E. Hughes (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003), 293;
earnest:
Benjamin Brown French to
Frank O. French, Washington, D.C., Apr. 15, 1865, French Papers, LC;
lynch:
Annie G. Dudley Davis diary, Apr. 15, 1865, HL;
exterminate:
J. Madison Bell, “Poem: In commemoration of the death of Abraham Lincoln, delivered at the great Public Meeting of Colored Citizens,”
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 21, 1865, #4831, BAP;
feeling:
George Comfort to Samuel Comfort, Morrisville, Pa., Apr. 16, 1865, Comfort Papers, Princeton;
actually:
Alfred W. Ellet to “Mary,” Union Grove, Ill., May 8, 1865, Cabell-Ellet Papers, ser. D,
part 1
, reel 8, UVA-CMM;
clemency:
Anne Neafie to Alfred Neafie, Ellenville, N.Y., Apr. 20, 1865, Neafie Papers, NYSL;
crushed:
Sarah Browne to Albert Browne, Salem, Mass., Apr. 20, 1865, BFP;
death:
Mary Butler Reeves to Caroline Butler Laing, Germantown, Pa., Apr. 16, 1865, Butler-Laing Family Papers, NYHS.