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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 ...
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 ...
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.
According to a new study by Wallet Hub, “women face bleak circumstance on nearly every front from poverty to life expectancy to education.” In the ranking for best places for women to live ...
Booth killed Lincoln, Atzerodt never attempted to kill Johnson, and Powell stabbed Seward repeatedly but failed to murder him. [107] As they fled the city after Lincoln's assassination, Booth and Herold picked up the rifles and binoculars from Surratt's tavern. [87] Lloyd repaired a broken spring on Surratt's wagon before they left. [105] [108 ...
A well-known letter commonly attributed to President Abraham Lincoln was likely written by his secretary John Hay, finds new research.
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.