Authors: Martha Hodes
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traitors:
T. M. D. Ward, “Our California Letter,” San Francisco, Apr. 21, 1865,
Christian Recorder
, published May 2o, 1865;
mercy:
Edward Williams Morley to Sardis Morley, Fortress Monroe, Va., Apr. 18, 1865, Edward Williams Morley Papers, LC.
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feeling:
Lucy Pierce Hedge to Charlotte Hedge, Brookline, Mass., Apr. 25, 1865, Poor Family Papers, SL;
merit:
Augustus W. Weeks to George Whipple, Fortress Monroe, Va., Apr. 18, 1865, #H1-7010, reel 209, AMA;
dam:
Alvin Palmer to uncle and aunt, Orfordville, N.H., May 7, 1865, Palmer Family Papers, Duke.
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great:
Dorman diary, Apr. 23, 1865;
gleeful:
see, e.g., E. R. Harmanson to “Prince,” Red River, La., Apr. 23, 1865, Albert A. Batchelor Papers, ser. B,
part 5
, reel 1, LSU-RSPE; [Helen Ellis?] to John Benjamin Long, Rusk, Tex., Apr. 26, 1865, Long Papers, ser. C,
part 1
, reel 21, UTA-CMM; Amanda (Edmonds) Chappelear diary, Apr. 21, 1865, Chappelear Papers, ser. D,
part 3
, reel 9, VHS-SWF; John Q. Anderson, ed.,
Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861–1868
(1955; reprint, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995), 333 (Apr. 28, 1865, entry); Sarah Lois Wadley diary, Apr. 26, 1865, Wadley Papers, ser. A,
part 3
, reel 6, SHC-SWF;
crazy:
Eliza F. Andrews,
The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864–1865
(New York: D. Appleton, 1908), 216 (May 5, 1865, entry), DocSouth, docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/andrews/menu.html;
private:
John Peter Nelson to George W. Colles, New Orleans, Apr. 20, 1865, Colles Family Papers, NYPL;
lunatic:
Lucy Muse (Walton) Fletcher diary, Apr. 19, 1865, Fletcher Papers, Duke;
tyrannicidal:
Francis R. Rives to unknown, New York, Apr. 15, 1865, William Cabell Rives Papers, LC;
fanatics:
Ellen Kean to Mary Kean, New York, Apr. 16, 1865, in
Death and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln … in Two Long Descriptive Letters from Mrs. Ellen Kean, the Actress, whilst Touring the United States in 1865
(London: Privately printed, 1921), 17;
desperadoes:
François Joinville to Gustavus V. Fox, “Orleans house,” Apr. 28, 1865, Gustavus-Fox Papers, NYHS.
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do not:
Cloe (Whittle) Greene diary, Apr. 16, 1865, reel 4, WM-AWD-South;
northern:
Caroline Dunstan diary, Apr. 15, 1865, NYPL;
curse:
Francis G. Barnes to Frances M. Barnes, Tombigbee River, Ala., Apr. 25, 1865, ts., p. 358, Barnes Letters, NYSL;
traitors:
anonymous Union soldier to parents, Burkeville, Va., Apr. 18, 1865, #08618, GLC-NYHS;
rants:
John B. Burrud to Ocena Burrud, Washington, D.C., Apr. 25–27, 28, May 5, 1865, and Charlestown, Va., Apr. 19, 1865, Burrud Papers, HL;
drunken:
unknown writer, Apr. 15, 1865, #193, Thomas B. Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, LC.
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vile, wretch:
editorials,
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 21, 1865, #4827, #4811, BAP;
scoundrel:
David F. Cushman to Caroline D. Cushman, Martinsburg, Va., Apr. 15, 1865, #250, octavo vol. 1, Civil War Collection, AAS;
fiend:
Helen Lansing Grinnell diary, Apr. 15, 1865, NYPL; R. B. Milliken to “Friend Byron,” Washington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1865, #54, Lincoln Room Miscellaneous Papers, HLH;
dog:
John Worthington to Mary Worthington, Cooperstown, N.Y., Apr. 15, 1865, Autograph File, HLH;
demon:
Edgar B. Jones to Theresa H. Perkins, City Point, Va., Apr. 22, 1865, Montgomery Family Papers, LC;
gift:
Gareth Wilkinson to “Mr. Linton,” London, Apr. 27, 1865, #07749.02, GLC-NYHS;
blood:
James Otis Moore to Mary Elizabeth Moore, Washington, D.C., Apr. 20, 1865, Moore Papers, Duke; Mary Butler Reeves to Caroline Butler Laing, Germantown, Pa., Apr. 16, 1865, Butler-Laing Family Papers, NYHS;
tortured:
Clara Allen to Walter Allen, Worcester, Mass., Apr. 16, 1865, Weston-Allen Papers, SSC;
lamppost, cut:
R. B. Milliken to “Friend Byron,” Washington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1865, #54, Lincoln Room Miscellaneous Papers, HLH;
flog:
Asa Fitch diary, Apr. 28, 1865, Fitch Papers, Yale-Sterling;
shoot:
C. B. Pyne to unknown, Diamond Creek, Va., May 12, 1865, #07206, GLC-NYHS;
burn:
J. N. Smith to brother, Washington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1865, box 2, Miscellaneous Documents Relating to Abraham Lincoln, HLH;
resuscitate:
John W. Haley,
The Rebel Yell and the Yankee Hurrah: The Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer
, ed. Ruth L. Silliker (Camden, Me.: Down East Books, 1985), 268 (Apr. 16, 1865, entry);
Cincinnati:
L. S. Currier to H. C. Rowley, Cincinnati, Apr. 15, 1865, Currier and Co. Papers, AAS.
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wanted:
broadside, “$100,000 reward! The murderer of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, is still at large,” 1865, Rare Book and Special Collections, LC, available at loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3g05341;
noose:
John Swift to sister, White River, Ark., Apr. 21, 1865, in “Letters from a Sailor on a Tinclad,” ed. Lester L. Swift,
Civil War History
7 (1961), 62;
till:
Charles J. Harris to parents, [Georgetown?], S.C., [late Apr.], 1865, Harris Letters, Duke;
fry:
Haley,
Rebel Yell
, 268 (Apr. 16, 1865, entry);
tear:
John Worthington to Mary Worthington, Cooperstown, N.Y., Apr. 15, 1865, Autograph File, HLH; on the travel accounts, see Elliott J. Gorn, “‘Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch’: The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry,”
American Historical Review
90 (1985), 18–43.
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another:
Chester dispatch, Richmond, Va., Apr. 17, 1865, in
Thomas Morris Chester: Black Civil War Correspondent—His Dispatches from the Virginia Front
, ed. R. J. M. Blackett (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989), 311;
spurred:
Samuel A. Harrison journal, Apr. 18, 23, 1865, MDHS;
villain:
Emilie Davis diary, “Miscellaneous” pages at back, dated Apr. 14, 1865, HSP and davisdiaries.villanova.edu;
rebels:
Sarah G. Putnam diary, Apr. 27, 1865, MHS.
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devilish:
Francis Lieber to Henry W. Halleck, New York, Apr. 16, 1865, box 28, Lieber Papers, HL;
thug:
Ellis Hughes diary, Apr. 25, 1865, Hughes-Gray Family Papers, Duke;
whole:
J. and J. H. St. John to Bela T. St. John, Genesee, Ill., Apr. 24, 1865, St. John Papers, LC;
because:
“General Hancock’s Appeal to the Colored People,” Washington, D.C., Apr. 24, 1865, in B. F. Morris,
Memorial Record of the Nation’s Tribute to Abraham Lincoln
(Washington, D.C.: W. H. and O. H. Morrison, 1865), 117.
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Africa:
George H. Mellish to parents, Danville, Va., May 2, 1865, Mellish Papers, HL;
shoot:
John L. Smith to Hannah Smith, near Washington, D.C., July 2, 1865, Smith Papers, HSP;
martyrs:
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), 67;
slavery:
Francis Lieber to Henry W. Halleck, New York, Apr. 15, 1865, box 28, Lieber Papers, HL;
sacrificed:
Susan E. Parsons Brown Forbes diary, Apr. 15, 1865, AAS;
agent:
Charles H. Mallory diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Mallory Family Collection, GWBW;
hate:
Anna M. Ferris diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Ferris Family Papers, FHL;
fruit:
Charles Francis Adams diary, Apr. 26, 1865, Adams Family Papers, MHS.
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slavery:
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;
agent:
“Fragment of commentary on Lincoln’s death,” John Morgan Walden Papers, Chicago;
expiate:
Philip Alexander Bell et al., [no title],
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 21, 1865, #4828, BAP;
localized, offence:
Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address,” Mar. 4, 1865,
CWL
, 8:332, 333.
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fruit:
Geo. Booth and Chas. Cuthbert, “Proceedings of the Colored Citizens of Sacramento,
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 28, 1865, #4992, BAP;
outcrop:
“Assassination of President Lincoln,”
New Orleans Black Republican
, Apr. 22, 1865, #5841, BAP;
one word:
Edward Morris to “My Dear Friend,” Philadelphia, Apr. 20, 1865, Incoming Correspondence, box I: A179, reel 97, American Colonization Society Papers, LC;
deepley:
A. H. Barnes to Lewis Tappan, Sakets Harbor, N.Y., Apr. 17, 1865, #88580, reel 136, AMA;
slayer:
John Glenn diary, Apr. 29, 1865, Glenn Papers, MDHS.
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foe:
Horace Greeley to [E. C. Doughty?], New York, Apr. 21, 1865, #18, Lincoln Room Miscellaneous Papers, HLH;
depravity:
George White diary, Apr. 16, 1865, vol. 32, Special Collections, HLS; Joseph Warren Keifer to Eliza Keifer, Burkeville, Va., Apr. 15, 1865, Keifer Papers, LC;
perverted:
Francis Lieber to Henry W. Halleck, New York, Apr. 22, 1865, box 28, Lieber Papers, HL;
another, appalling:
Pennsylvania and Ohio tributes, in Morris,
Memorial Record
, 132, 134;
pistol, embodied:
Proceedings of the Union League of Philadelphia Regarding the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
(Philadelphia: Ashmead, 1865), 11, 12.
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loyalty:
Lyman Trumbull, “Furnished by Mr. Lincoln & copied into my remarks to be made at the celebration at Springfield, Ill. Nov. 20, 1860,” in “A Lincoln Correspondence,” ed. William H. Lambert,
Century Magazine
77 (1909), 625–26.
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crew:
Elbert Johnson diary (labeled “E. M. Johnson’s Reminiscences of the War”), Apr. 15, 1865, Johnson Papers, NYSL;
some:
William H. Brown to George W. Brown, Philadelphia, Apr. 15, 1865, Brown Letters, Brown.
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slaveholders:
Alonso H. Quint, “Southern Chivalry, and What the Nation Ought to Do With It,” Apr. 16, 1865, in Quint,
Three Sermons Preached in the North Congregational Church, New Bedford, Mass., Fast Day, April 13, and Sunday, April 16, 1865
(New Bedford, Mass.: Mercury, 1865), 31–45;
level:
Georgia Treadway to Newton Perkins, New Haven, Conn., Apr. 16, 1865, Montgomery Family Papers, LC;
connection:
“What Has Jefferson Davis Done?”
New York Anglo-African
, May 27, 1865.
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dont see:
Henry Robinson Berkeley diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Berkeley Papers, ser. A, reel 2, VHS-CMM;
spirit:
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);
villainous:
Eliza F. Andrews,
The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864–1865
(New York: D. Appleton, 1908), 238 (May 10, 1865, entry), DocSouth, docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/andrews/menu.html.
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leading:
“Rebecca” to Jane Wigglesworth Grew, Boston, Apr. 18, 1865 (part of Apr. 16 letter), Grew Correspondence, MHS;
secession:
William Gray Brooks diary, Apr. 16, 1865, Brooks Papers, MHS;
upper:
Francis Cabot Lowell to brother, Boston, Apr. 17, 1865, Francis Cabot Lowell Papers, MHS;
hot-headed:
Hatsell P. Lyons to “Mary,” Kinston, N.C., May 15, 1865, Lyons Papers, GWBW;
leaders:
W.H.C., “Our California Letter,” San Francisco, Apr. 21, 1865,
Christian Recorder
, published May 20, 1865;
John Brown:
Mary Mellish to George H. Mellish, Woodstock, Vt., Apr. 19, 1865, Mellish Papers, HL;
list:
George White diary, Apr. 17, 18, 1865, HLS;
pity:
Quint, “Southern Chivalry,” 41;
she devils:
Hallock Armstrong to Mary Armstrong, near Petersburg, Va., Apr. 19, 1865, in
Letters from a Pennsylvania Chaplain at the Siege of Petersburg: 1865
(N.p.: Privately published, 1961), 31, ACWLD;
worse:
Edgar B. Jones to Theresa H. Perkins, City Point, Va., Apr. 22, 1865, Montgomery Family Papers, LC.
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masses:
see, e.g., Charles W. Morrell to brother, Richmond, Va., Apr. 17, 1865, ts., Morrell Letters, LC;
common:
Henry Ward Beecher,
Oration at the Raising of “The Old Flag” at Sumter; and Sermon on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
(Manchester: Alexander Ireland, 1865), 24.
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people:
Henry S. Thacher diary, Apr. 6, 1865, Thacher Family Papers, MHS;
aristocracy:
Hallock Armstrong to Mary Armstrong, near Petersburg, Va., Apr. 8, 1865, in
Letters from a Pennsylvania Chaplain
, 21, ACWLD;
think:
Edward W. Benham to Jennie Benham, near Falling Creek, Va., May 8, 1865, ts., Benham Papers, Duke;
miserably:
William H. Ellis diary, Apr. 14, 1865, Ellis Papers, ser. B, reel 5, LSU-CMM;
not because:
Robert H. Williams to Ellen Williams, City Point, Va., Apr. 5, 1865, Goff-Williams Papers, HL;
starving:
John H. Francis to William E. Conrow, “Camp 7th N.Y. Indpt. Battery,” Apr. 10, 1865 (in folder of James E. McBeth Letters), Francis Letters, NYHS.