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Title: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : recollections and accounts of eyewitnesses
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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ever met. He had a vigorous handshake and wasas cordial and courteous as any man Iever knew, said Mr. Troutner. I chat-ted with him at the White House on sev-eral occasions. One time he gave me themilitary salute before I observed him.Then he queried me: Where do youcome from? From Iowa, I told him.And the one thing of which I have al-ways felt proud is that he answered bysaying that Iowa is one of the beststates in the union. Speaking of the execution of the con-demned four Mr. Troutner said:- ; On July 7, 1865, I had the pleasure ofbeing detailed as a guard at the hanging Iof Atzerodt, Mrs. Suratt, Herold and jPowell. I saw the death trap sprung, !but was too far away to hear the prison- Iers speak. Kept Part of Noose. Mr. Troutner declared that after thehanging he came into possession of apiece of rope which was used as thenoose for Mrs. Suratt. He kept it as amemento. I showed the piece of rope to myfriends frequently afterwards, and whenthey so desired I used to cut off a little
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end for them, he said. By cutting offlittle strips the rope became so shortthat last year I lost it altogether. Among tho notable battles in which Mr.Troutner took part were those of BlueHills, Shiloh and the Vicksburg cam-paign. He was wounded only once dur-ing the war and that occurred in theengagement at Blue Hills. He was shotin the left side of his body, between theribs. -The bullet was never extracted. On one occasion Mr. Troutner narrow-ly missed being killed. It was on a sul-try day and he wore little clothing. Hewas carrying his rubber blanket acrosshis body. It had been folded sixteentimes. A cannister missile struck andpenetrated the sixteen folds, knockingMr. Troutner down, but not injuring him. My body was black and blue for atime afterwards, but otherwise I sufferedno ill effects, Mr. Troutner said. Afterthe cannister struck me the rebels pickedme up and I was in the Libby Belle isl-and prison, near Richmond, for fourmonths. Tuesday It was fifty-four years sincejVIr. Tro

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