The life of Abraham Lincoln - drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, (14803385463)

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Title: The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, et cetera
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library



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ven, Symptoms ofimmediate dissolution, and then at twenty-two minutes pastseven, in the presence of his son Robert, Secretaries Stanton,Welles and Usher, Attorney-General Speed, Senator Sum-ner, Private Secretary Hay, Dr. Gurley, his pastor, and sev-eral physicians and friends, Abraham Lincoln died. Therewas a prayer, and then the solemn voice of Stanton broke thestillness, Now he belongs to the ages. Two hours later the body of the President, wrapped in anAmerican flag, was borne from the house in Tenth Street,and carried through the hushed streets, where already thou-sands of flags were at half-mast and the gay buntings andgarlands had been replaced by black draperies, and where themen who for days had been cheering in excess of joy and re-lief now stood with uncovered heads and wet eyes. They car-ried him to an upper room in the private apartments of theWhite House, and there he lay until three days later a heart-broken people claimed their right to look for a last time onhis face.
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WATCHING AT THE BEDSIDE OF THE DYING PRESIDENT ON THE NIGHT OF APRIL I4 AND 15, 1865. CHAPTER XXXILincolns funeral The first edition of the morning papers in all the citiesand towns of the North told their readers on Saturday,April 15, 1865, that Abraham Lincoln, President of theUnited States, lay mortally wounded in Washington. Theextras within the next two hours told them he was dead.The first impulse of men everywhere seems to have been todoubt. It could not be. They realized only too quicklythat it was true! There was no discrediting the circum-stantial accounts of the later telegrams. There was no es-cape from the horror and uncertainty which filled the air,driving out the joy and exultation which for days had inun-dated the country. In the great cities like New York a death-like silence fol-lowed the spreading of the news—a silence made the moreterrible by the presence of hundreds of men and women walk-ing in the streets with bent heads, white faces, and knitbrows. Automatical