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Tag Archives: Lincoln’s Assassination
They Held Lincoln’s Life in Their Hands
Less than 15 minutes had passed since John Wilkes Booth pulled the trigger of his derringer and sent a bullet into the back of President Abraham Lincoln’s head. Army Dr. Charles Leale, the supervisor of Lincoln’s health, and the host … Continue reading
Posted in Lincoln, Primary Sources
Tagged Abraham Lincoln Assasination, Battery C Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Charles Leale, Ford's Theater, Jabez Griffiths, Jacob Soles, John Corey, John Weaver, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln Assassination, Lincoln's Assassination, Thompson's battery, William Sample
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Echoes of Reconstruction: E. P. Alexander in Washington and the Lincoln Assassination
ECW is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog We all know that Ulysses S. Grant gave uncommonly generous terms of surrender to Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox in April, 1865. Rather than … Continue reading
Weekly Whitman: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
As I wandered through the gardens of Colonial Williamsburg last weekend, a blooming lilac bush caught my eye and some Whitman poetry came to mind. I asked Miss Meg if I could take over her column for the week to … Continue reading
Posted in Lincoln
Tagged Civil War poetry, Lincoln's Assassination, Walt Whitman, weekly-whitman
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Ending the War: James Tanner and his Cherished Memories of the Awful Night
James Tanner had never seen Tenth Street so full of people. The crowd packed the street in front of his second-floor apartment. Tanner sat on his porch, looking down into the mass of people. Dignitaries and generals came and went, … Continue reading
The Unexpected Turn
In my conclusion to Turning Points of the American Civil War, I suggest that Lincoln’s assassination was perhaps a turning point of the war rather than just a tragic coda that followed the surrender at Appomattox. In his outstanding book … Continue reading
James A. Garfield Remembers Abraham Lincoln
On April 14, 1866, Ohio Representative James A. Garfield stood and used the occasion of the first anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination to eulogize the late president. Though he had only been in office little more than three years, Garfield’s eulogy … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Federal, Lincoln, Memory, Personalities, Politics, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Eulogy, James A. Garfield, Lincoln's Assassination
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John Wilkes Booth and the Legacy of Reconstruction
How sorely we miss Abraham Lincoln—yet I often wonder whether we realize just how much. A shrewd politician, Lincoln successfully navigated the complicated political waters of Washington for more than four years, somehow cobbling together a coalition to maintain support … Continue reading
