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Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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d. Major Rathburn had received afearful wound in his arm. The President was borne to a small house across the street. Mrs.Lincoln, dazed and wild with grief, followed, tenderly cared for by MissHarris. Physicians and the members of the Cabinet were summoned. All Washington was in com-motion— thronging thestreets, learning not onlythat the President had beenshot, but that another assas-sin had gained entrance tothe house of Mr. Seward asa messenger with medicinefrom his physician. The as-sassin had snapped a pistol atMr. Frederick Seward, andbeaten him senseless with theweapon; had inflicted sev-eral Avounds upon Mr. Sew-ard with a knife, and alsowounded two attendants. Through the night themembers of the Cabinet,physicians, and the weeping-family watched the ebbingtide of life.() A little past seven oclockin the morning AbrahamLincoln died, with inexpress-ible peace upon his face. Now he belongs to theages, said Secretary Stanton,breaking the silence.What motive impelled him to com-
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nOUSE IN WHICH ABRAHAM LINCOLN DIED Who was John Wilkes Booth ?mit the crime ? The Confederate Government, in its desperation during the lastmonths of the war, had used pitiable and despicable means to postponeapproaching doom. The Confederate agents in Canada had employedWilliam L. McDonald to manufacture an explosive compound to beplaced in hotels and steamships for their destruction. On the evening THE CLOSING SCENE. 517 of November 5,1864, while the people of Isew York were rejoicing overthe re-election of President Lincoln, incendiary fires were kindled inthirteen places, which, however, were quickly extinguished. Steam-boats had been burned on the western rivers. John Y. Beall, educated in the University of Virginia, owner of 100slaves, captain in the Confederate Army, an accredited agent of the Con-federacy, had been employed to w^eck railroad trains. When arrestedand brought to trial he took a commission from his pocket, signed byJefferson Davis, to show that he was an officer

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