. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . lot, as it was meanihe should from the first. Then, half mad, htaccepted the part Fate cast him for—com-mitted the monstrous crime, and paid th(awful price. And since God moves in a mysterious way,His wonders to perform, we venture to pray for His mercy upon th(guilty soul who may have repented and confessed his manifold sins and offences durinjthose awful hours of suffering before thend came. And God shutteth not up His mercies f oiever in displeasure ! We can only shiveand turn our thoughts away from the brighlight that went out in such ut
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . lot, as it was meanihe should from the first. Then, half mad, htaccepted the part Fate cast him for—com-mitted the monstrous crime, and paid th(awful price. And since God moves in a mysterious way,His wonders to perform, we venture to pray for His mercy upon th(guilty soul who may have repented and confessed his manifold sins and offences durinjthose awful hours of suffering before thend came. And God shutteth not up His mercies f oiever in displeasure ! We can only shiveand turn our thoughts away from the brighlight that went out in such utter darknessPoor, guilty, unhappy John Wilkes Booth ! HOME. By Paul Kester. I WANT to go home To the dull old town With the shaded streets And the open square And the hill And the flats And the house I love And the paths I know— I want to go home. If I cant go back To the happy days, Yet I can live Where their shadows lie, Inder the trees And over the grass— I want to be there Where the joy was once. Oh, I want to go home, I want to go Drawn by Mary Halluck Foute EngravcJ by (.. J. A. State. ON THK IIRINK, THE CAPTrRl-. OP ATH. AND BURIALBOOTH. OF J. liv Ray Stannakd Baker. THE TRUE STORY OF THE PURSUl r AND CAPTURE, AND DEATH AND BURIALOF THE OF LINCOLN, NOW FIRST TOLD FROM THE PERSONALREMINL^CFNCES OF COLONEL L. C. BAKER AND LIEUTENANT L. , WHO DIRECTED THE PURSUIT AND DISPOSED OF BOOTHS BODY. [The final capture of John Wilkes Booth, the murderer of President Lincoln, hasbeen generally credited to Lieutenant E. P. Doherty and a squad of cavalry under hiscommand. Morse, in his Abraham Lincoln, says: Late on April 25, a squad ofcavalrv traced Booth to a barn in Virginia, etc. Nicolay and Hay, in their history,sav: On the night of the 25th of April, a party under Lieutenant E. P. Dohertyarrested, in his bed at Bowling Green, ^Villiam Jett, one of the Confederate soldiersmentioned above, and forced him to guide them to Garretts barn. Lieutena
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