Mourning Lincoln (56 page)

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ignorantly:
Quint, “Southern Chivalry,” 42;
masses:
“Funeral Oration by Bishop Simpson,” in B. F. Morris,
Memorial Record
, 236;
unwilling:
Henry Hitchcock to Mary Hitchcock, Raleigh, N.C., Apr. 25, 1865, Hitchcock Papers, LC;
inflaming:
Samuel A. Harrison journal, Apr. 16, 1865, MDHS.

34
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guilty:
Alfred Neafie to Anne Neafie, Savannah, Ga., Apr. 20, 1865, Neafie Papers, NYSL;
always:
Alonzo Pickard to Byron Flagg, Alexandria, Va., Apr. 17, 1865, part of Rose Pickard to Byron Flagg, Apr. 14, 1865, Pickard Papers, LC.

35
.
friends, foes:
Frederick Douglass, “Our Martyred President: An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 15 April 1865,”
FDP
, ser. 1, 4:78–79;
poor:
“Emancipation of the White Man,”
New York Anglo-African
, July 23, 1865;
class:
“The Blacks and the Ballot,”
Christian Recorder
, May 27, 1865.

36
.
poor:
Hallock Armstrong to Mary Armstrong, near Petersburg, Va., Apr. 10, 8,
1865, in
Letters from a Pennsylvania Chaplain
, 25, 22, ACWLD;
instruct:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, Apr. 18, 1865, MHS;
trash:
John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Question of ToDay,”
Liberator
, May 26, 1865.

37
.
feeling:
Anna M. Ferris diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Ferris Family Papers, FHL;
judge:
William L. Mead to Louisa White, Charleston, S.C., Apr. 19, May 4, 1865, ts., George Cornwell Correspondence, MDHS;
God:
James Thomas Ward diary, Apr. 28, 1865, Ward Papers, LC;
vengeance:
Caroline Butler Laing to Mary Butler Reeves, Brooklyn, N.Y., Apr. 21, 1865, Butler-Laing Family Papers, NYHS.

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malice, bind:
Lincoln, “Second Inaugural,” Mar. 4, 1865,
CWL
, 8:333;
even:
Jacob Thomas, “Sermon Preached in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church,” in
Tribute of Respect
, 46;
Christian:
J. G. Holland,
The Nation Weeping for Its Dead: Observances at Springfield, Massachusetts, on President Lincoln’s Funeral Day
(Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles, 1865), 28–29.

39
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do all, all knew, blood:
Lincoln, “Second Inaugural,” Mar. 4, 1865,
CWL
, 8:332–33.

40
.
sublimely:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, Apr. 23, 1865, MHS;
remember:
Ruth [no last name], “Chicago Correspondence,” Chicago, May 3, 1865,
Christian Recorder
, published May 20, 1865.

1
.
best friend:
Otis Norcross diary, Apr. 15, 1865, MHS;
murdered:
“Our Domestic Correspondence,” letter from H. O. Waggner, Chicago, Apr. 16, 1865,
New York Anglo-African
, published Apr. 29, 1865;
editors:
“Our National Sacrifice,”
Christian Recorder
, Apr. 22, 1865; editorial,
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 21, 1865, #4811, BAP;
ministers:
Edwin Greble Sr. to Susan Greble, Richmond, Va., Apr. 18, 1865, Greble Papers, LC;
cabinet:
John P. Usher to wife, Washington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1865, ts., Usher letter, LC;
generals:
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;
officers:
Francis G. Barnes to Frances M. Barnes, Tombigbee River, Ala., Apr. 25, 1865, ts., p. 359, Barnes Letters, NYSL;
soldiers:
Franklin Boyts to Hiram Boyts, Washington, D.C., Apr. 17, 1865, in Boyts diary, HSP;
women:
Caroline Butler Laing to Mary Butler Reeves, Brooklyn, N.Y., Apr. 21, 1865, Butler-Laing Family Papers, NYHS;
dastardly:
Albert Browne to “Dear Ones,” Charleston, S.C., Apr. 21, 1865, BFP.

2
.
greatest:
Dorman diary, Apr. 26, 1865;
lost:
Samuel Miller Quincy [no salutation], New Orleans, Apr. 19, 1865, Quincy, Wendell, Holmes, Upham Family Papers, MHS;
warm:
Hannah Ford Turner to William Mason Turner, Philadelphia, Apr. 20, 1865, Turner Papers, Brown;
horrible:
Kate Johnson to William Fell Johnson II, Rockland Estate, Md., Apr. 21, 1865, box 47, Johnson Family Papers, MDHS.

3
.
ever:
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;
earthly:
L. R. Hyslop to George Whipple, Norfolk, Va., Apr. 28, 1865, #H1-7034, reel 209, AMA;
emancipator:
Field Cook, “Meeting in Richmond, Va.,”
Christian
Recorder
, Apr. 29, 1865;
brothers:
“Meeting in Richmond,”
New York Anglo-African
, May 6, 1865;
greatest:
“Assassination of President Lincoln,”
New Orleans Black Republican
, Apr. 22, 1865, #5841, BAP.

1
. Dorman diary, May 2, 1865.

2
. Dorman diary, May 14 (start, dastardly), 2 (law), 1865.

3
. Sarah Browne diary, Apr. 19, 1865, BFP.

4
. Sarah Browne diary, Apr. 17 (Albert Jr., embalmed), 19, 20, 24, May 5 (ceremonies, funeral), 11 (Lincolns), Apr. 25 (astonishing), 1865; Albert Browne to “Dear Ones,” Georgetown, S.C., Apr. 25, 1865, both BFP.

5
. For arguments about the funeral and funeral train unifying Americans, see Gary Laderman,
The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes toward Death, 1799–1883
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), 157–63, and Barry Schwartz, “Mourning and the Making of a Sacred Symbol: Durkheim and the Lincoln Assassination,”
Social Forces
70 (1991), 343–64.

6
.
lining up:
David Homer Bates diary, Apr. 18, 1865, Bates Papers, LC;
most:
Helen Varnum Hill McCalla diary, Apr. 18, 1865, LC;
Fourteenth Annual Report of the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society
(Rochester, N.Y., 1865), 7;
surface:
unknown writer, Apr. 20, 1865, #193, Thomas B. Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, LC;
fabric:
“Bills for President Lincoln’s Funeral,” in Margaret Leech,
Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865
(New York: Harper and Brothers, 1941), 422.

7
.
quiet:
James G. Randall, ed.,
The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning
, 2 vols. (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1933), 2:20, 22 (Apr. 17, 1865, entry; see also Apr. 15);
perfectly:
Benjamin Brown French,
Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee’s Journal, 1828–1870
, ed. Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1989), 471 (Apr. 17, 1865, entry).

8
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last:
Ellis Hughes diary, Apr. 18, 1865, Hughes-Gray Family Papers, Duke;
rush, guards:
Charles A. Sanford to Edward Payson Goodrich, Washington, D.C., Apr. 18, 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.;
jammed:
Rose Pickard to Angeline Flagg, Alexandria, Va., Apr. 24, 1865, Pickard Papers, LC;
wait:
Helen Varnum Hill McCalla diary, Apr. 18, 1865, LC;
turned away:
James Thomas Ward diary, Apr. 18, 1865, Ward Papers, LC.

9
.
saddest:
Anson G. Henry to wife, Washington, D.C., Apr. 19, 1865, ts., box 4, fol. 8, Lincoln Miscellaneous Manuscripts, Chicago.

10
.
sermon:
Phineas D. Gurley, “Funeral Address,” in B. F. Morris,
Memorial Record of the Nation’s Tribute to Abraham Lincoln
(Washington, D.C.: W. H. and O. H. Morrison, 1865), 85–91;
men weeping:
James Thomas Ward diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Ward Papers, LC.

11
.
vile:
Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas, eds.,
The Diary of George Templeton Strong: The Civil War, 1860–1865
(New York: Macmillan, 1952), 589 (Apr. 19, 1865, entry).

12
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represent:
James Otis Moore to Mary Elizabeth Moore, “Potomac River,” Apr. 19, 1865, Moore Papers, Duke; on the 22nd U.S.C.T., see also Charles Griswold Gurley Merrill diary, Apr. 17, 19, Merrill Papers, Yale-Sterling; Levi S. Graybill Papers, Apr. 19, 1865, HL;
negro & white:
Harry Gibbons to Samuel Bancroft Jr., Washington, D.C., Apr. 19, 1865, Bird-Bancroft Collection, DHS;
promiscuous:
Ellis Hughes diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Hughes-Gray Family Papers, Duke.

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memorable:
Nevins and Thomas,
Diary of George Templeton Strong
, 590 (Apr. 19, 1865, entry);
splendid:
Gertrude Dunn diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Diaries Box, NYPL;
solemn:
Selden Connor to sister, Washington, D.C., Apr. 19, 1865, Connor Papers, Brown;
great:
William Owner diary, Apr. 19, 1865, LC.

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biggest:
Amory K. Allen to wife, Washington, D.C., Apr. 23, 1865, in “Civil War Letters of Amory K. Allen,”
Indiana Magazine of History
31 (1935), 386;
roasted:
Simon Newcomb diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Newcomb Papers, LC;
excellent:
William H. Gilbert diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Gilbert-Cheever Family Papers, Yale-Sterling;
dark:
Sarah Browne diary, Apr. 19, 1865, BFP.

15
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serious:
John Wolcott Phelps commonplace book, Apr. 19, 1865, Phelps Papers, NYPL;
holy:
editorial,
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 21, 1865, #4807, BAP;
dreadful:
Harriet Anne Severance diary, Apr. 19, 1865, SL;
headache:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, Apr. 19, 1865, MHS;
faint:
Caroline Dall journal, Apr. 22, 1865, vol. J27, Dall Papers, MHS;
lovely:
Caroline Barrett White diary, Apr. 19, 1865, White Papers, AAS.

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took:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, Apr. 19, 1865, MHS;
Cincinnati:
Wallace Shelton,
Discourse upon the Death of Abraham Lincoln … Delivered in Zion Baptist Church, Cincinnati, Wednesday, April 19, 1865
(Newport, Ky.: W. S. Baily, 1865), 3, 6;
thy will:
Lucy Pierce Hedge to Charlotte Hedge, Brookline, Mass., Apr. 20, 1865 (part of Apr. 18 letter), Poor Family Papers, SL;
God works:
Martha Coffin Wright to William P. Wright, Auburn, N.Y., Apr. 21, 1865, box 268, Garrison Family Papers, SSC;
got over:
“Em” to Lewis J. Nettleton, Milford, Conn., Apr. 19, 1865, Nettleton-Baldwin Family Papers, Duke;
felt:
Caroline Butler Laing to Mary Butler Reeves, Brooklyn, N.Y., Apr. 21, 1865, Butler-Laing Family Papers, NYHS;
too much:
Kate Hunter journal, Apr. 19, 1865, Hunter Family Papers, ser. B,
part 2
, reel 27, NHS-NWF;
delightful:
Ruth Anne Hillborn journal, Apr. 19, 1865, Hillborn Papers, FHL.

17
.
Altoona:
Doug Phillips to Aaron S. Crosby, Fallen Timber, Pa., Apr. 23, 1865, box 1, Miscellaneous Documents Relating to Abraham Lincoln, HLH;
San Francisco:
“The Day of the Obsequies,”
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 21, 1865, #4812, BAP;
camp:
William H. Richards to “Anna,” Camp Lowell, Va., Apr. 20, 1865, Brown Family Papers, NYSL;
marched:
Zoe J. Campbell diary, Apr. 22, 1865, ser. E, reel 5, LSU-SWF (translation from French by Martha Hodes);
rebeldom, claims:
“From the Regiments,” letter from Richard H. Black, 3rd U.S.C.T., Fernandina, Fla.,
New York Anglo-African
, May 27, 1865.

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worst:
Caroline Butler Laing to Mary Butler Reeves, Brooklyn, N.Y., Apr. 21, 1865, Butler-Laing Family Papers, NYHS;
universal:
Anna M. Ferris diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Ferris Family Papers, FHL;
free states:
Ezra Stiles Gannett daily journal, Gannett Papers, Apr. 19, 1865, MHS;
Union:
Henry S. Thacher diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Thacher Family Papers,
MHS;
dare:
Mary Jane Church to Dennis Church, New York, Apr. 20, 1865, Church Letters, Cornell;
trunk:
Louisa G. Mason diary, Apr. 19, 1865, MDHS;
ape:
Kena King Chapman diary, Apr. 19, 1865, SHC;
bristled:
John V. L. Pruyn diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Pruyn Papers, NYSL;
during:
John Glenn diary, Apr. 21, 1865, Glenn Papers, MDHS;
bitter:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, Apr. 19, 1865, MHS;
importens:
diary fragments, “Point Lookout, Md.,” Apr. 19, 1865, Prison Papers, Confederate States of America Papers, Duke.

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notables:
Charles Larrabee to Mary Ann Larrabee, [no place], Apr. 27, 1865, HM46981, HL;
in-between stops:
see, e.g., Jennie M. Smith to Mercy Schenck, Syracuse, N.Y., May 7, 1865, Schenck Family Papers, NYSL.

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lonesome:
W. A. Barkalow to brother, Kokomo, Ind., Apr. 30, 1865, in
Wanted—Correspondence: Women’s Letters to a Union Soldier
, ed. Nancy L. Rhoades and Lucy E. Bailey (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009), 305;
tide:
Anna M. Ferris diary, Apr. 22, 1865, Ferris Family Papers, FHL;
100,000:
Samuel S. Halsey to Joseph J. Halsey, Morristown, N.J., May 1, 1865, Morton-Halsey Papers, ser. E,
part 1
, reel 37, UVA-RSP;
faint:
Asa Fitch diary, Apr. 26, 1865, Fitch Papers, Yale-Sterling;
Springfield:
see, e.g., Robert Steele to “Mrs. Wood,” Cairo, Ill., May 9, 1865, box 2, Miscellaneous Documents Relating to Abraham Lincoln, HLH.