On display in Chicago this day, Lincoln‘s body is viewed by some 125,000 mourners. In this the third week following Lincoln’s assassination and the fourth following the Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s surrender of his Army of Northern Virginia, late in the afternoon in Abbeville, South Carolina former Confederate president Jefferson Davis presides over his…
The second Sunday after Lincoln‘s death, many pulpits North and South, with the encouragement of U.S. President Andrew Johnson, focus on the president’s legacy. In the nation’s capital, the overflowing crowd at the First Baptist Church, through a sermon preached by pastor Dr. A. D. Gillette, remembers the president and absorbs lessons brought about by…
At 7:22 a.m. comes the pronouncement: President Abraham Lincoln is dead, the victim of an assassin’s bullet the evening previous. The body of Lincoln, the champion of liberty for all and first American president to be assassinated, is moved to the White House. Still at large and now in hiding, the killer, John Wilkes Booth,…