Authors: Martha Hodes
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heads:
Caroline Dall to “John,” Boston, Apr. 20, 1865, Dall Papers, SL, and Caroline Dall journal, Apr. 22, 1865, vol. J27, Dall Papers, MHS;
could see, true:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, Apr. 15, 1865, MHS;
businessmen:
Otis Norcross diary, Apr. 15, 1865, MHS;
visitors:
see, e.g., Caroline Barrett White diary, Apr. 15, 1865, White Papers, AAS.
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northern New England:
John Wolcott Phelps commonplace book, Apr. 15, 1865, Phelps Papers, NYPL;
Mid-Atlantic:
Henry Wirt Shriver diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Shriver Family Papers, MDHS;
Chicago:
“H.H.” to cousin, Freeport, Ill., Apr. 15, 1865, Jefferson Hartman Correspondence, Duke;
Kansas:
Susan B. Anthony diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Anthony Papers, LC;
Salt Lake City:
Patty Bartlett Sessions diary, Apr. 15, 1865, ts., reel 15, Utah-AWD-West;
Sacramento:
Frederick G. Niles diary, Apr. 15, 1865, HL;
mining town:
Franklin Augustus Buck to Mary Sewall Bradley, Weaverville, Calif., Apr. 27, 1865, Buck Papers, HL;
Ohio:
Henry W. Pearce to “Lena,” Marietta, Ohio, Apr. 16, 1865, #00066.150, GLC-NYHS;
Wisconsin:
C. R. Tolles to uncle, Kenosha, Wis., Apr. 16, 1865, Myron Tolles Papers, Duke;
Minnesota:
Eugene Marshall diary, Apr. 16, 1865, Marshall Papers, Duke;
Santa Fe:
“President Lincoln’s Assassination,” letter from Santa Fe, N.Mex., May 8, 1865,
New York Anglo-African
, published June 17, 1865;
Utah:
Charles Lowell Walker diary, May 8, 1865, HL;
small town:
Nimrod Porter diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Porter Papers, SHC;
New Orleans:
C. Orrez and Patrick Shields, file OO934, RG153-NARA;
Texas:
William Williston Heartsill,
Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army
, ed. Bell Irvin Wiley (1876; reprint, Jackson, Tenn.: McCowat-Mercer, 1954), 240 (Apr. 23, 1865, entry), ACWLD;
Alabama:
Charles Oscar Torrey diary, Apr. 29, 1865, Torrey Papers, LC;
freedpeople:
Gerald Schwartz, ed.,
A Woman Doctor’s Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks’ Diary
(Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1984), 133 (Apr. 19, 1865, entry);
flag-lowering:
J. Harry Keyes to Sarah Ogden, City Point, Va., Apr. 30, 1865, #06559.060, GLC-NYHS; Thomas Day Seymour to Nathan Seymour, Richmond, Va., Apr. 17, 1865, Seymour Family Papers, Yale-Sterling;
newspapers:
Julius Ramsdell diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Ramsdell Papers, SHC; Thomas J. Kessler diary, Apr. 16, 19, 1865, #04562, GLC-NYHS;
William Kauffman Scarborough, ed.,
The Diary of Edmund Ruffin: A Dream Shattered, June, 1863–June, 1865
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989), 852, 853 (Apr. 18, 19, 1865, entries); Samuel A. Agnew diary, Apr. 29, 1865, SHC, available at
www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/a
/Agnew,Samuel_A.html#;
letters:
[illegible] to “Bliss,” Morrisville, N.C., Apr. 18, 1865, Bancroft-Bliss Families Papers, LC.
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ships:
Thomas Day Seymour to Nathan Seymour, Richmond, Va., Apr. 17, 1865, Seymour Family Papers, Yale-Sterling;
Spain:
William Benjamin Gould diary, Apr. 15, 1865, MHS;
London:
Benjamin Moran diary, Apr. 19, 24, 1865, Moran Papers, LC;
Jamaica:
T. B. Penfield to George Whipple, Brainerd, Jamaica, Apr. 28, 1865, #F1-3841, reel 231, AMA;
awful:
William Benjamin Gould diary, May 6, 1865, MHS;
Sierra Leone:
H. H. Himman to George Whipple, Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone, West Africa, June 16, 1865 (part of June 3 letter), #F1-9664, reel 242, AMA;
China:
Martha Green journal, July 13, 1865, MHS;
Australia:
Lowell H. Harrison, “An Australian Reaction to Lincoln’s Death,”
Lincoln Herald
78 (1976), 12–17.
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Egypt:
Charles Hale to Sarah Hale, Ramallah, Egypt, May 8, 1865, box 22, and Charles Hale to Edward Everett Hale, Alexandria, Egypt, May 13, 1865, box 19, Hale Family Papers, SSC.
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astonished:
Alexander Randall diary, Apr. 15, 1865, MDHS; Bruno Trombley diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Civil War Miscellaneous Letters and Papers, Schomburg;
astounding:
Samuel A. Harrison journal, Apr. 16, 1865, MDHS;
astounded, calamity:
George Comfort to Samuel Comfort, Morrisville, Pa., Apr. 16, 1865, Comfort Papers, Princeton;
startled:
Martha Fisher Anderson diary, Apr. 15, 1865, MHS;
stupefied:
George Bedson to Ichabod Washburn, Manchester, England, Apr. 29, 1865, Washburn Family Papers, AAS;
thunderstruck:
William E. Fisher to James C. Parker, [no city], N.C., Apr. 30, 1865, Fisher Letters, NYSL; Charles Edward French diary, Apr. 15, 1865, French Diaries and Papers, MHS; Charles H. Mallory diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Mallory Family Collection, GWBW;
calamity:
Edwin Greble Sr. to Susan Greble, Baltimore, Apr. 16, 1865, Greble Papers, LC; William Gray Brooks diary, Apr. 15, 17, 18, 1865, Brooks Papers, MHS; Anna Cabot Lowell diary, Apr. 15, 1865, MHS; “Nannie” to Charles E. Snyder, [no place], Apr. 16, 1865, box 1, Miscellaneous Documents Relating to Abraham Lincoln, HLH;
catastrophe:
John G. Nicolay to Therena Bates, “Chesapeake Bay,” Apr. 17, 1865, Nicolay Papers, LC;
dagger:
Charles Oscar Torrey to Mira Torrey, Montgomery, Ala., May 1, 1865, Torrey Papers, LC;
thunderbolt:
Julia Anna Hartness Lay diary, Apr. 15, 1865, NYPL; “Albert” [?] to mother, New York, Apr. 17, 1865, box 2, Civil War Collection, AAS; unknown writer, Apr. 15, 1865, #193, Thomas B. Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, LC;
thunderclap:
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;
blue sky:
Henry W. Pearce to “Lena,” Marietta, Ohio, Apr. 16, 1865, #00066.150, GLCNYHS;
horrible:
Lydia Stark to Franklin W. Fuller, Baldwinsville, N.Y., Apr. 23, 1865, #03523.42.56, GLC-NYHS;
terrible:
Sophia E. Perry diary, Apr. 15, 1865, CP;
scarcely:
Edwin Greble Sr. to Susan Greble, Baltimore, Apr. 16, 1865, Greble Papers, LC;
cannot, must not:
“Em” to Lewis J. Nettleton, Milford, Conn., Apr. 19, 1865, Nettleton-Baldwin
Family Papers, Duke;
but how:
Ruth Anne Hillborn journal, Apr. 15, 1865, Hillborn Papers, FHL.
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could not:
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;
overwhelming:
John Ritchie journal, Apr. 23, 1865, Records of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, MHS;
refused:
Enock K. Miller, “A Good Letter from a Chaplain in the Army,” Fort Barrancas, Fla., May 17, 1865,
Christian Recorder
, published June 10, 1865;
agitated, worried:
Testimony of Elizabeth Clark and Mary Jones, in Patrick Shields, file OO934, RG153-NARA;
electric:
Mattie J. Jackson,
The Story of Mattie J. Jackson
(Lawrence, Mass.: Sentinel, 1866), in
Six Women’s Slave Narratives
, ed. William L. Andrews (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 30;
distress:
B.L.D. to editor, Louisville, Ky., Apr. 24, 1865,
Christian Recorder
, published May 6, 1865.
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secesh lie:
Mary S. Pond to George Whipple, Portsmouth, Va., May 13, 1865, #H1-7147, reel 210, AMA;
canard:
Edwin Greble Sr. to Susan Greble, Baltimore, Apr. 16, 1865, Greble Papers, LC;
getup:
Charles Edward French diary, Apr. 15, 1865, French Diaries and Papers, MHS;
dreadful:
Caroline Barrett White diary, Apr. 19, 1865, White Papers, AAS;
horrible:
Helen Lansing Grinnell diary, Apr. 15, 1865, NYPL;
play:
[M. S. Tilton?] to Georgina Lowell, Washington, D.C., Apr. 15, 1865, Francis Cabot Lowell Papers, MHS;
last scene:
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz to mother, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 18, 1865, Agassiz Papers, SL;
stunning:
Susan B. Anthony diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Anthony Papers, LC;
dream:
Walt Whitman, “O Captain! My Captain!” in
Sequel to Drum-Taps
(Washington, D.C., 1865–66), 13, available at
whitmanarchive.org/published/other/DrumTapsSequel.html
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frantic:
Sarah Browne to Albert Browne, Salem, Mass., Apr. 20, 1865, BFP;
Norfolk:
L. D. Burnett to George Whipple, Norfolk, Va., May 1, 1865, #H1-7068, reel 210, AMA;
Nashville:
Martha J. Patterson to Andrew Johnson, Nashville, Tenn., Apr. 15, 1865,
PAJ
, 7:560 (gala); Richard M. Williams to Robert H. Williams, Nashville, Tenn., Apr. 19, 1865, Goff-Williams Papers, HL (crash);
New Bern:
Mary Ann Starkey to “My dear Friend,” New Bern, N.C., Apr. 20, 1865, Edward W. Kinsley Papers, Duke;
Charleston:
Charles Barnard Fox,
Record of the Service of the Fifty-Fifth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
(Cambridge, Mass.: John Wilson, 1868), 74 (Apr. 19, 1865, diary entry);
Virginia:
L. R. Hyslop to George Whipple, Norfolk, Va., Apr. 28, 1865, #H1-7034, reel 209, AMA.
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news:
William A. Spicer diary, re: Apr. 18, 1865, Spicer Papers, Duke.
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Chicago:
Elon N. Lee to family, Chicago, Apr. 19, 1865, ts., Lee and Bastin Papers, Chicago;
chiming:
Mary Elizabeth Moore to James Otis Moore, Saco, Me., Apr. 15, 1865, Moore Papers, Duke;
dreadful:
Henry W. Pearce to “Lena,” Marietta, Ohio, Apr. 16, 1865, #00066.150, GLC-NYHS;
darker:
“Eliz.” to “Geo.,” Cambridge, Mass., Apr. 16, 1865, Wigglesworth Family Papers, MHS;
sun:
Caroline Barrett White diary, Apr. 15, 1865, White Papers, AAS;
same:
Edward Everett Hale to Charles Hale, Boston, Apr. 15, 1865, box 6, Hale Papers, NYSL;
while:
David F. Cushman to Caroline D. Cushman, Martinsburg,
Va., Apr. 15, 1865, #250, octavo vol. 1, Civil War Collection, AAS;
shot:
George H. Mellish to parents, near Burkeville Junction, Va., Apr. 16, 1865, Mellish Papers, HL.
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navy yard:
Michael Shiner diary, Apr. 15, 1865, LC, available at history.navy.mil/library/online/shinerdiary.html;
saddest:
James Thomas Ward diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Ward Papers, LC;
face:
Sarah G. Putnam diary, Apr. 15, 1865, MHS.
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shot:
William H. Lightner diary, Apr. 14, 1865, MDHS;
killed:
Shirley Brooks diary, Apr. 14, 26, 1865, ML;
send:
Caroline Dall to “John,” Boston, Apr. 20, 1865, Dall Papers, SL.
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lines:
Samuel Canby diary, Apr. 15, 1865, DHS;
box:
Caroline Barrett White diary, Apr. 14–15, 1865, White Papers, AAS;
calligraphy:
Ruth Anne Hillborn journal, Apr. 15, 1865, Hillborn Papers, FHL;
Pres.:
anonymous account book, Apr. 19, 1865, Anonymous Diaries and Account Books, SL.
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shot:
Grenville H. Norcross diary, Apr. 15, 1865, AAS;
laughed, rouse:
Anna Cabot Lowell diary, Apr. 15, 1865, MHS;
three inches:
Mrs. Bardwell diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Helen Temple Cooke Papers, SL;
dress circle:
Horatio Nelson Taft diary, Apr. 30, 1865, LC, available at memory.loc.gov/ammem/tafthtml/;
specifics:
Charles Edward French diary, Apr. 15, 17, 1865, French Diaries and Papers, MHS.
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poor:
M. M. Hutchins to “Mr. Whiting,” Dover, N.H., Apr. 17, 1865, #75762, reel 117, AMA.
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greatest:
Heber Painter to Rebecca Frick, Richmond, Va., Apr. 17, 1865 (part of Apr. 16 letter), #02016.082, GLC-NYHS;
startling:
Margaret B. Howell diary, Apr. 15, 1865, HSP.
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excite:
v., definition #5,
Oxford English Dictionary;
everybody:
Gertrude Dunn to [illegible], [no place], Apr. 20, 1865, on “Memoranda” pages of Dunn diary, Diaries Box, NYPL;
thrown:
J. N. Smith to brother, Washington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1865, box 2, Miscellaneous Documents Relating to Abraham Lincoln, HLH;
state:
Alfred Goldsborough Jones journal, Apr. 15, 1865, NYPL;
most:
Simon Newcomb diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Newcomb Papers, LC;
so excited:
Sawyer, “Account,” 62.
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gloom:
n., definition #2,
Oxford English Dictionary;
dreadful:
S. L. Daffin to George Whipple, Wilmington, N.C., Apr. 30, 1865, #100009, reel 169, AMA;
dismay:
Lucy Pierce Hedge to Charlotte Hedge, Brookline, Mass., Apr. 25, 1865, Poor Family Papers, SL;
heavy:
John G. Nicolay to Therena Bates, Washington, D.C., Apr. 18, 1865, Nicolay Papers, LC;
every thing:
Edward J. Bartlett to Martha Bartlett, South Side Railroad, Va., Apr. 16, 1865, Bartlett Letters, MHS;
silent:
W. Springer Menge and J. August Shimrak, eds.,
The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm: A Chronicle of Daily Life in the Union Army, 1864–1865
(New York: Orion, 1989), 81–82 (Apr. 17, 18, 1865, entries).