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301 NOTES Prologue 1. Newark (N.J.) Daily Advertiser, March 7, 1865. 2. New York Herald, March 6, 1865; Washington Evening Star, March 4, 1865. 3. Dover Delawarean, March 11, 1865. 4. Ibid. 5. New York Herald, March 6, 1865. 6. Washington Evening Star, March 4, 1865. 7. Noah Brooks, Washington, D.C. in Lincoln’s Time (New York: Rinehart, 1958), 210; Michael Burlingame, ed., Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), 165. 8. Philip Van Doren Stern, “The President Came Forward and the Sun Burst through the Clouds,” American Heritage IX, no. 2 (February 1958): 15. 9. Ibid., 11. 10. William Owner Diary, March 6, 1865, Library of Congress; Washington Evening Star, March 4, 1865; Diary of Gideon Welles—Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson, vol. 2 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 252. 11. Washington Evening Star, March 4, 1865; Jeremiah T. Lockwood letter, March 4, 1865, Library of Congress; Newark (N.J.) Daily Advertiser, March 7, 1865. 12. Burlingame, Lincoln Observed, 168. 13. Stern, “The President Came Forward,” 94. 14. Washington Evening Star, March 4, 1865. 15. Benjamin Meyer Letter, March 8, 1865, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis. 16. Robert W. McBride, “Lincoln’s Body Guard: The Union Light Guard of Ohio with Some Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Indiana Historical Society Publications 5, no. 1 (1911): 29. 17. William Owner Diary, March 6, 1865; Newark (N.J.) Daily Advertiser, March 7, 1865. 18. Muriel Davies Mackenzie, “Maggie!”: Maggie Lindsley’s Journal (Southbury, Conn., 1977), March 4, 1865. 19. Stern, “The President Came Forward,” 94. 20. Washington Evening Star, March 4, 1865. 21. Justin Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980), 301. 22. Washington Evening Star, March 4, 1865. 23. Burlingame, Lincoln Observed, 169. 24. Benjamin Meyer Letter, March 8, 1865. 25. “Lincoln’s Second Inaugural: A Gala Event in Washington Society,” Lincoln Lore, no. 1452 (February 1959): 2. 26. Louis J. Weichmann, A True History of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Conspiracy of 1865 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), 89. 27. Washington Evening Star, April 17, 1865. 1. Three Electric Words 1. Brooks, Washington, D.C. in Lincoln’s Time, 220. 2. Philadelphia Inquirer, April 4, 1865. 3. Ibid. 4. Brooks, Washington, D.C. in Lincoln’s Time, 219. 5. John K. Lattimer and Terry Alford, “Eyewitness to History: Newton Ferree, the Lincoln Assassination and the Close of the Civil War in Washington,” 95, Ford’s Theater Archive. 6. Washington Evening Star, April 3, 1865. 7. New York Times, April 6, 1865. 8. Washington Evening Star, April 3, 1865. 9. Ibid.; Brooks, Washington, D.C. in Lincoln’s Time, 221. 10. Gordon Arthur Willett Letter, April 4, 1865, Historical Society of Washington, D.C.; Washington Daily Constitutional Union, April 8, 1865. 11. Edmund Leicester Poole Letter, April 5, 1865, Library of Congress. 12. Brooks, Washington, D.C. in Lincoln’s Time, 221. 13. Wilmington Delaware Republican, May 4, 1865. 14. Washington Evening Star, April 4, 1865. 15. Ibid., April 3, 1865. 2. The White City 1. Emil and Ruth Rosenblatt, eds., The Civil War Letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861–1865 (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1992), 321; “Recollection of Lincoln ,” George Andrew Huron Collection, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. 2. “Recollection of Lincoln,” Huron Collection. 3. Ibid. 4. Rosenblatt, Private Wilbur Fisk, 322. 5. Ibid. 6. Henrietta Stratton Jaquette, South after Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock, 1863–1868 (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1956), 179. 7. Adolphe de Chambrun, Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War: A Foreigner’s Account (New York: Random House, 1952), 79. 8. Rosenblatt, Private William Fisk, 322. 9. Victor Searcher, The Farewell to Lincoln (New York: Abingdon, 1965), 133. 10. Ibid. 11. Jaquette, South after Gettysburg, 179. 12. Rosenblatt, Private William Fisk, 323. 302 notes to pages 6–15 [35.175.172.94] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 22:54 GMT) 3. The Last Man 1. Chicago Tribune, April 11, 1865. 2. Ibid. 3. Chicago Tribune, April 10, 1865. 4. Harold Earl Hammond, ed. Diary of a Union Lady, 1861–1865 (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1962), 351; New York Times, April 10, 1865; Chicago Tribune, April 11, 1865. 5. Ida M. Tarbell, “The Death of Abraham Lincoln,” McClure’s, December 1896, 375. 6. Chicago Tribune, April 11, 1865. 7. Ibid. 8. Thomas Goodrich, Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991), 182. 9. Denver Daily Rocky Mountain...