. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . nty-two minutes pastseven, in the presence of his son Robert,Secretaries Stanton, Welles, and Usher,Attorney-General Speed, Senator Sumner,Private Secretary Hay, Dr. Gurley, hispastor, and several physicians and friends,Abraham Lincoln died. There was a prayer,and then the solemn voice of Stanton brokethe stillness, Now he belongs to theages. Two hours later the body of the President,wrapped in an American flag, was borne fromthe house in Tenth Street, and carried throughthe hushed streets, where already thousandsof flags were at half-mast a
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . nty-two minutes pastseven, in the presence of his son Robert,Secretaries Stanton, Welles, and Usher,Attorney-General Speed, Senator Sumner,Private Secretary Hay, Dr. Gurley, hispastor, and several physicians and friends,Abraham Lincoln died. There was a prayer,and then the solemn voice of Stanton brokethe stillness, Now he belongs to theages. Two hours later the body of the President,wrapped in an American flag, was borne fromthe house in Tenth Street, and carried throughthe hushed streets, where already thousandsof flags were at half-mast and the gay bunt-ings and garlands had been replaced by blackdraperies, and where the men who for dayshad been cheering in excess of joy and re-lief now stood with uncovered heads and weteyes. They carried him to an upper room inthe private apartments of the White Housc^and there he lay until three days later a heart-broken jjeople claimed their right to look fora last time on his face. SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF JOHN WILKES JiOOTJl, Clara ^ iN glancing back over twocrowded and busy seasons,one figure stands out withclearness and beauty. In hiscase only (so far as my per-sonal knowledge goes), therewas nothing derogatory todignity or to manhood in be-ing called beautiful, for hewas that bud of splendidpromise blasted to the core,before its full triumphant blooming—knownto the world as a madman and an assassin,but to the profession as that unhappy boy —John Wilkes Booth. He was so young, so bright, so gay—sokind. I could not have known him well ; ofcourse, too—there are two or three differentpeople in every mans skin ; yet when we re-member that stars are not generally in thehabit of showing their brightest, their bestside to the company at rehearsal, we cannothelp feeling both respect and liking for theone who does. There are not many men who can receivea gash over the eye in a scene at night, with-out at least a momentary outburst of temper ;but when the combat
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