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to Lorenzo P. Thomas re: four accounts of capture of Herold and death of Booth

Forney, a pro-slavery candidate, was "in favor of the maintenance and faithful execution of the fugitive slave laws...and of the suppression of all further agitation of the slavery question."

GLC07747.01

re: eyewitness account of capture of Herold and death of Booth

GLC07747.02

re: eyewitness account of the capture of Herold and death of Booth

GLC07747.03

re: eyewitness account of the capture of Herold and death of Booth

GLC07747.04

re: eyewitness account of the capture of Herold and death of Booth

Discusses "the rights of master and the interests of the slave."

GLC07747.05

Harper's weekly. [Vol. 9, no. 436 (May 6, 1865)]

Includes articles on the late President Lincoln's funeral and various engravings of scenes of the funeral in New York. ALso includes scenes from the funeral procession in Washington D.C., Lincoln in his deathbed, and other assassination related...

GLC08426

to Senor Abraham L. Dovale

Co-signed by Schuyler Colfax as Speaker of the House. Invitation to a memorial ceremony for Abraham Lincoln to be held at the Hall of the House.

GLC08450

to Celia

Calvin, a Union soldier, discusses the 14 April 1865 death of President Abraham Lincoln with Celia (possibly Celia Cleland). States "We have met with the greatest loss that ever any Nation met with in loosing our much beloved President Abraham...

GLC08483.03

National police gazette. [Vol. 20, no. 1025 (April 22, 1865)]

Includes six large front page sketches relaying various scenes of Lincoln's assasination, Seward's attempted assassination and portrait of John Wilkes Booth. Has bold black borders around news columns symbolizing the mourning of Lincoln's death. A...

GLC08560

New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 25, no. 7520 (May 13, 1865)]

Reports that news reporters are once again not allowed to enter the courtroom during the Lincoln conspiracy trial. Also includes a previously unpublished letter written by President Lincoln regarding Mr. Thomas Durant and the secession of Louisiana...

GLC08726.32

Harper's weekly. [Vol. 9, no. 447 (July 22, 1865)]

Includes engravings of the execution of Lincoln conspirators, portraits of Lewis Payne, David Harold, J.W. Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt, and image of Surratt's home in Washington, D.C.
Highlights the consecration of the Gettysburg monument of July 4...

GLC08748.04

The Lincoln Museum and the House where Lincoln Died

GLC08880.109

Proclamation of Mourning for John F. Kennedy

GLC09533

Subscription to create a trust fund for the Garfield family

Written and signed after Garfield's assassination. Also signed by businessmen Junius S. Morgan, Collis P. Huntington, J. Seligman, Henry M. Flagler, William Rockefellar (also John D. by Flagler), Russell Sage and Jay Gould, and others.

GLC00811

to Mary Moore Kelly

He describes the surrender of Raleigh and the request for protection from looters. "The men here with few exceptions are anxious to come back into the Union; but as usual the majority of the ladies are rebellious, of course." He is optimistic of...

GLC04195.31

Letter and two telegrams requesting prosecution of Horace Greeley [Decimalized .01-.03]

Edwin M. Stanton writes one letter and two telegrams to Edwards Pierrepont asking him to prosecute Horace Greeley, who Stanton claims has tried to incite others to murder him.

GLC04452

to Edwards Pierrepont

Desires "to prosecute Horace Greeley and the owner of the New York Tribune for the persistent effort of the last few weekes to incite assassins to murder me." Requests that J. B. Cutting and Mr. Brady find out who owns the Tribune.

GLC04452.01

to Edwards Pierrepoint

Clerical telegram requesting Pierrpont prosecute Horace Greeley for "persistent effort the last four (4) weeks to incite assassins to finish wheir work by murdering me." Asks him to "secure copies of all Tribunes published since the night after the...

GLC04452.02

to Edwards Pierrepont and J. B. Cutting

Clerical telegram stating Stanton has "proof of express personal malice against me by Greeley and Believe that I can establish a combination between him & others which may end in accomplishing my death as it did against Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward."...

GLC04452.03

General orders no. 66

Secretary of War Stanton announces the death of President Lincoln to the armies. States that "headquarters of every department, post, station, fort, and arsenal will be draped in mourning for thirty days." Also, funeral honors will take place at...

GLC04528

to Rufus King

Written by Marshall as Secretary of State to King as American Minister to Britain. Acknowledges that all letters inclusive to No. 74 have arrived. Says if it is proper, King should send friendly dispositions of the American government after an...

GLC04535

[Diary of a soldier 2nd Brigade Band, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, during Petersburg Campaign]

States that his band played out the old year and in the new 1 January. 2 January, mentions "Rebs threw a shell at us while playing the Star-spangled Banner at Div Hd. Qrs shelling continued for some time afterwards. Notes that his band performs and...

GLC04562

[Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs on Piracy around Cuba and Puerto Rico from the 18th Congress]

Printed report "Of the Committee on Foreign Affairs to which was referred so much of the President's message, as relates to Piracies committed on the Commerce of the United States, in the neighborhood of the Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico." Says the...

GLC04604.01

Wing of the Capitol building with flag at half-staff.

A print of a photograph taken of the Grand Review of the Union Army on May 23rd, 1865. The photograph shows the north wing of the US Capitol building with the camera facing south-west. There is a large crowd in front of the Capitol, presumably...

GLC05111.01.0011

President Lincoln's funeral procession on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. April 19, 1865.

Inscription on verso: "Funeral of Pres. Lincoln." Lines of soldiers [blurred in motion] march down Pennsylvania Avenue as crowds look on from the sidewalks. The buildings have been decorated for the occassion.

GLC05111.01.0696