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The dress Harris wore the night Lincoln was shot was the subject of the 1929 book The White Satin Dress, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews. [21] In 1994, Thomas Mallon released the novel Henry and Clara, a fictional account of the lives of Harris and her husband. [22] Mercedes Herrero (1998) The Day Lincoln Was Shot; Eleanor Perkinson (2013 ...
The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred President, New York: Bunce & Huntington, 1865. This is a collection of essays, accounts, sermons, newspaper reports, poems, and more, with no editor or authors named, except Richard Henry Stoddard , whose poem "Abraham Lincoln—An Horatian Ode" is included ...
Henry Reed Rathbone (July 1, 1837 – August 14, 1911) was a United States military officer and lawyer who was present at the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; Rathbone and his fiancé Clara Harris were sitting with Lincoln and Lincoln's wife Mary Todd Lincoln when the president was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre.
The previous evening, a man who wanted to be a hero for a lost cause had cowardly and callously shot President Lincoln in the back of the head at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., at 10 p.m.
There are several theories as to why Booth killed Lincoln. Booth was a Confederate sympathizer who thought Lincoln was a tyrant. He also harbored dreams of fame.
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever is a book by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard concerning the 1865 assassination of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. The book was released on September 27, 2011, and is the first of the Killing series of popular history books by O'Reilly and Dugard.
A well-known letter commonly attributed to President Abraham Lincoln was likely written by his secretary John Hay, finds new research. Famous letter attributed to Abraham Lincoln likely written by ...
Samuel James Seymour (March 28, 1860 – April 12, 1956) was an American man who claimed to be the last surviving person to witness the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.