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An Eyewitness Account of Lincoln's Visit to Richmond (Atlantic Monthly, 1865)"Abraham Lincoln was walking their streets: and worst of all, that plain, honest-hearted man was recognizing the [slaves] as human beings by returning their salutations!" -so wrote the Atlanta Weekly journalist, C.C. Coffin, in this report to his readers concerning the 1865 tour Abraham Lincoln made to a very humiliated Richmond, Virginia. Lincoln's Truest Mourners (Harper's Weekly, 1865)"[To the liberated slaves] the name Abraham Lincoln meant freedom, justice, home, family, happiness. In his life they knew that they lived. In his perfect benignity and just purpose, inflexible as the laws of seed-time and harvest, they trusted with all their souls, whoever doubted. Their deliverer, their emancipator, their friend, their father, he was known to them as the impersonation of that liberty for which they had wept and watched, hoping against hope, praying in the very extremity of despair and waiting with patience so sublime that fat prosperity beguiled us into the meaness of saying that their long endurance of oppression proved that God had created them to be oppressed." General Sherman and the Surrender in the West (Harper's Weekly, 1865)General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 - 1891), U.S. Army, found himself in hot water at war's end when he accepted the surrender of Confederate General Joseph Johnston (1807 – 1891) after having provided far more lenient terms than President Lincoln preferred.
Snapshots of the Assassination (Saturday Evening Post, 1865)"The pistol ball entered the back of the President's head and penetrated nearly through the head. The wound is mortal. The President has been insensible ever since it was inflicted and is now dying... A common single-barred pocket pistol was found on the carpet." When Grant Captured Richmond (The Atlantic Monthly, 1865)A moving account of the fall of Richmond, pieced together from various eyewitness accounts:
"The whole Rebel Government was on the move, and all Richmond desired to be. No thoughts of taking Washington now, or of the flag of the Confederacy flaunting in the breeze over the old capitol! Hundreds of officials were at the depot, to get away from the doomed city. Public documents, the archives of the Confederacy, were hastily gathered up, tumbled into boxes and barrels, and taken to the trains, or carried into the streets and set on fire." Ford's Theater Layout (Harper's Magazine, 1865)Attached is a schematic drawing depicting the theater box occupied by the President and Mrs. Lincoln the night of his assassination.
Featured in the image is the dark hallway leading to the President's Box, the footlights and the stage by which Booth was able to make good his escape.
Click here to read about a dream that President Lincoln had, a dream that anticipated his violent death. General Grant's March on Richmond (The Atlantic Monthly, 1865)The Atlantic Monthly who witnessed Grant's maneuvering outside the city of Richmond filed this article: "General Grant's entire force could not have been less than a hundred and thirty thousand, including Sheridan's cavalry, the force at City Point, and the provisional brigade at Fort Powhatan. Lee's whole force was not far from seventy thousand, - or seventy-five thousand, including the militia of Richmond and Petersburg..."
Click here to learn why Richmond was chosen as the capitol of the Confederacy |
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