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Identifier: abrahamlincolntv2hern (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln : the true story of a great life
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Herndon, William Henry, 1818-1891 Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930, joint author White, Horace, 1834-1916
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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y stirred in his chair, and neverspoke or showed any signs of consciousness again. They carried him immediately to the house ofMr. Petersen, opposite the theatre, and there,at 7:22 the next morning, the 15th of April, hedied. The night of Lincolns assassination was a mem-orable one in Washington. Secretary Seward wasattacked and wounded while lying in bed with abroken arm. The murder of the President put the authoritieson their guard against a wide-reaching conspiracy,and threw the public into a state of terror. Theawful event was felt even by those who knew notof it. Horsemen clattered through the silentstreets of Washington, spreading the sad tidings,and the telegraph wires carried the terrible storyeverywhere. The nation awakened from its dreamof peace on the 15th of April, 1865, to learn thatits protector, leader, friend, and restorer had beenlaid low by a stage-mad avenger. W. O. Stod-dard, in his Life of Lincoln, says: It was as ifthere had been a death in every house throughout
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The Petersen House, Washington.Building in which Lincoln died. THE LIFE OF LINCOLN. 2jg the land. By both North and South alike the awfulnews was received with a shudder and a momentaryspasm of unbelief. Then followed one of the mostremarkable spectacles in the history of the humanrace, for there is nothing else at all like it on record.Bells had tolled before at the death of a loved ruler,but never did all bells toll so mournfully as they didthat day. Business ceased. Men came togetherin public meetings as if by a common impulse, andparty lines and sectional hatreds seemed to beobliterated. The assassination took place on Friday evening,and on the following Sunday funeral services wereheld in all the churches in the land, and everychurch was draped in mourning/ The death of Mr. Lincoln was an indescribableshock to his fellow countrymen. The exultation ofvictory over the final and successful triumph ofUnion arms was suddenly changed to the lamenta-tions of grief. In every household th

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