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<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-01'>Saturday, April 1, 1865.</date>
<place key='37.3167, -77.2667' teiForm='name'>City Point,
VA</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>Steamboat <ital>River Queen</ital>
</place>. </dateline>
<p> President spends most of day waiting for reports, sending and receiving
messages. Returns to "<ship teiForm='name'>River Queen</ship>" in evening and walks deck most
of night. <bibl default='NO'>William H. Crook, "Lincoln's Last Day: New Facts Now Told for
the First Time. Compiled and written down by Margarita S. Gerry,"
<title>Harper's Monthly Magazine</title> 115 (September 1907):519;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A818' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 1 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:379;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A819' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 1 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:379-80;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A820' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 1 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:380-81;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A821' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 1 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:381; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1, XLVI, pt. 3,
392-93.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and Sec.
Seward return to Washington. Tad remains with father. <bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1408;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A821' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 1 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:381.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-02'>Sunday, April 2, 1865.</date>
<place key='37.3167, -77.2667' teiForm='name'>City Point, VA</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President remains at front. <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> arrives in Washington on
steamer "Monohasset."
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 3 April 1865; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1, XLVI pt. 3, 446.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln goes ashore in barge ordered by Rear Adm. Porter.
<bibl default='NO'>Francis F. Browne, <title>The Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln</title> (New York: Thompson, 1886), 689.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Rides out to entrenchments near battleground and watches fighting for
short while.
<bibl default='NO'>William H. Crook, "Lincoln's Last Day: New Facts Now Told for the First Time. Compiled and written down by Margarita S. Gerry," <title>Harper's Monthly Magazine</title> 115 (September 1907):519; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1, XLVI, pt. 3, 461.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Sends message 7:45 A.M. to <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>: "This morning Gen. Grant, .
. . telegraphs as follows. . . . 'The battle now rages furiously. . .
. All now looks highly favorable.'"
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A822' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 2 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:381-82.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
In afternoon telegraphs <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>: "Gen. Grant telegraphs that he
has Petersburg completely enveloped . . . suggests that I shall go
out and see him . . . which I think I will do. Tad and I are both
well."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A827' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary Todd Lincoln</xref>, 2 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:384; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1, XLVI, pt. 3, 447-48.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
At 11 A.M. telegraphs
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
: "Despatches frequently coming in.
All going finely."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A823' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 2 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:382.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
At 2 P.M. sends Grant's report to
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>: "'We are now closing around the works of the line immediately enveloping Petersburg. All looks remarkably well.'"
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A824' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 2 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:382-83.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
At 8:15 P.M. telegraphs Grant: "Allow me to tender to you, and all
with you, the nations grateful thanks for this additional, and
magnificent success. At your kind suggestion, I think I will visit
you to-morrow."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A825' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 2 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:383.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-03'>Monday, April
3, 1865.</date>
<place key='37.3167, -77.2667' teiForm='name'>City Point, VA</place> and <place key='37.2167, -77.4000' teiForm='name'>Petersburg,
VA</place>. </dateline>
<p> At 8 A.M. President starts for meeting with Gen.
Grant in Petersburg, Va., now evacuated. <bibl default='NO'>
<title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1, XLVI, pt. 3, 508;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A828' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 3 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:384-85.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Receives
message from Grant suggesting that he come to headquarters. Train is made up
and takes Presidential party to Patrick Station, about mile from town.
President and Tad proceed in ambulance. <bibl default='NO'>Barnes, "<title corresp='books_Barnes1'>With Lincoln</title>," 744.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Lincoln on
special train receives message at Pitkin Station from Robert: "I am awaiting
you at Hancock Station." <bibl default='NO'>Lincoln to Lincoln, 3 April 1865, Robert Todd
Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Lincoln and Grant talk for hour and half in small house in
Petersburg. <bibl default='NO'>Ulysses S. Grant, <title>Personal Memoirs</title>, 2 vols.
(London: Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886), 2:452-59;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A829' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 3 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:385.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President
returns to train and to U.S.S. "Malvern," flagship of Rear Adm. Porter, in high
spirits. Receives message from Gen. Weitzel in evening that Richmond is being
evacuated. <bibl default='NO'>Barnes, "<title corresp='books_Barnes1'>With Lincoln</title>,"
745-46.</bibl>
</p>
<p> [Weitzel takes possession of Richmond at 8:15 A.M.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1,
XLVI, pt. 3, 510.</bibl>] </p>
<p> At 5 P.M. President telegraphs
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> from City Point: "Yours received.
Thanks for you caution; but I have already been to Petersburg, staid with Gen.
Grant an hour & a half and returned here. It is certain now that Richmond
is in our hands, and I think I will go there to-morrow. I will take care of
myself." <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A829' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 3 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:385.</bibl>
</p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-04'>Tuesday, April 4, 1865.</date>
<place key='37.3167, -77.2667' teiForm='name'>City Point, VA</place> and <place key='37.5500, -77.4500' teiForm='name'>Richmond, VA</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
At 8 A.M. President orders Samuel A. Beckwith, cipher operator at
Gen. Grant's headquarters, to accompany him to Richmond.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 353-54.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Presidential party travels on "River Queen" to meet Rear Adm.
Porter's fleet. Transfers to flagship U.S.S. "Malvern" for trip to
Richmond. Abandons "Malvern" for Captain's gig manned by 12 sailors.
With President are Porter, Capt. Penrose, Tad, and W. H. Crook. Party
lands at point called Rocketts on edge of town, 100 or more yards
back of Libby Prison. With six sailors in front of President and six
in rear, with Porter and Penrose on one side and Tad and Crook on
other, party proceeds on foot to Gen. Weitzel's headquarters, house
recently occupied by President Davis.
<bibl default='NO'>William H. Crook, "Lincoln's Last Day: New Facts Now Told for the First Time. Compiled and written down by Margarita S. Gerry," <title>Harper's Monthly Magazine</title> 115 (September 1907):520-22.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
At Davis house is shown into room used for office. Sits and remarks,
"This must have been President Davis's chair." Inspects house
accompanied by aide to Gen. Weitzel.
<bibl default='NO'>Thomas Thatcher Graves, in <title>Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate Officers</title>, 4 vols. (1884-1887; reprint, with a new introduction by Roy F. Nichols, New York: T. Yoseloff, 1956), 4:728.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lunches with Gens. Weitzel and Shepley; rides around in ambulance
through crowded streets to various points of interest, stopping only
at Capitol, before returning to "Malvern" for night. Among visitors
to see President is Duff Green, diplomat and journalist.
<bibl default='NO'>William H. Crook, "Lincoln's Last Day: New Facts Now Told for the First Time. Compiled and written down by Margarita S. Gerry," <title>Harper's Monthly Magazine</title> 115 (September 1907):520-22; Barnes, "<title corresp='books_Barnes1'>With Lincoln</title>," 746-49; Washington Star, 8 April 1865.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Interviews former Assoc. Justice Campbell on subject of peace.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 9 April 1865; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1, XLVI, pt. 3, 723.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln's reception at Richmond is described by Weitzel as
"enthusiastic in the extreme."
<bibl default='NO'>
<title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1, XLVI, pt. 3, 574-75.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
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<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-05'>Wednesday, April 5, 1865.</date>
<place key='37.5500, -77.4500' teiForm='name'>Richmond,
VA</place> and <place key='37.3167, -77.2667' teiForm='name'>City Point, VA</place>. </dateline>
<p> At 9 A.M.
President comes ashore in Rear Adm. Porter's barge and goes to army
headquarters. <bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph
Office</title>, 357.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Again meets former Assoc. Justice
Campbell, to discuss how Virginia can be brought back into Union.
<bibl default='NO'>Campbell to Anderson, 7 April 1865, Edwin M. Stanton Papers, Library of
Congress, Washington DC;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A832' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to John A. Campbell</xref>, [5 April 1865],
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:386-87.</bibl>
</p>
<p> After
morning meeting with Campbell, President leaves Richmond for City Point. <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A833' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 5 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:387; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1, XLVI, pt. 3,
575.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President replies to Seward: "Yours of to-day received. I
think there is no probability of my remaining here more than two days longer.
If that is too long come down. I passed last night at Richmond and have just
returned." <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A833' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to William H. Seward</xref>, 5 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:387.</bibl>
</p>
<p> At 6 P.M.
receives message that Sec. Seward has been thrown from carriage and dangerously
injured. <bibl default='NO'>Stanton to Lincoln, 5 April 1865, Robert Todd Lincoln Collection
of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
[Receives March salary warrant for $1,981.67. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt,
<title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 184.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, accompanied by Sen. Sumner
(Mass.), Sen. Harlan (Iowa) and family, Mrs. Elizabeth Keckley, and Marquis de
Chambrun, leaves Washington at 11 A.M. aboard steamer "Monohasset" for City
Point. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 5 April 1865; Elizabeth Keckley, <title>Behind
the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House</title>
(1868: reprint, Buffalo, NY: Stansil and Lee, 1931), 162-64.</bibl>] </p>
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<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-06'>Thursday, April 6, 1865.</date>
<place key='37.3167, -77.2667' teiForm='name'>City Point, VA</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President authorizes Gen. Weitzel to give permission to "gentlemen
who have acted as the Legislature of Virginia, in support of the
rebellion" to assemble at Richmond and take measures to withdraw
Virginia troops.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A835' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Godfrey Weitzel</xref>, 6 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:389.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
In Col. Theodore S. Bowers' tent quotes Artemus Ward's account of
escape of "Polly Ann."
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 187.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and party join President on board steamer "River Queen."
<bibl default='NO'>Adolphe de Pineton, marquis de Chambrun, <title>Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War: A Foreigner's Account</title> (New York: Random House, 1952), 73-77.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President informs Gen. Grant of Sec. Seward's accident and of
conferences with former Assoc. Justice J. A. Campbell in Richmond. If
war is further persisted in South, confiscated property will bear
additional cost. Confiscations will be remitted to people of any
state which promptly withdraws its troops from resistance to
government. If Confederate Legislature of Virginia wishes to meet for
this purpose, Weitzel will protect them. "I do not think it very
probable that anything will come of this; but I have thought best to
notify you."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A834' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 6 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:388-89.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President visits military offices, anxious for news from Grant.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1, XLVI, pt. 3, 595.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
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<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-07'>Friday, April 7, 1865.</date>
<place key='37.3167, -77.2667' teiForm='name'>City Point, VA</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President forwards to
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
telegrams from Gens. Humphreys,
Meade, and Wright.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A837' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 7 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:390-92.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Interviews Asst. Sec. Dana and remarks that "Sheridan seemed to be
getting Virginia soldiers out of the war faster than this legislature
could think."
<bibl default='NO'>
<title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1, XLVI, pt. 3, 619.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Reviews troops and tires himself out shaking hands.
<bibl default='NO'>Elizabeth Keckley, <title>Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House</title> (1868: reprint, Buffalo, NY: Stansil and Lee, 1931), 168.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Congs. James G. Blaine (Maine) and Washburne (Ill.), on trip to
front, visit President on board steamer "River Queen" in evening.
<bibl default='NO'>Rice, 43-44.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln telegraphs Gen. Grant: "Gen. Sheridan says 'If the thing is
pressed I think Lee will surrender.' Let the <uLine>thing</uLine> be
pressed."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A838' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ulysses S. Grant</xref>, 7 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:392.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-08'>Saturday, April 8, 1865.</date>
<place key='37.3167, -77.2667' teiForm='name'>City Point,
VA</place> and <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> on <place key='' teiForm='name'>Steamboat <ital>River
Queen</ital>
</place>. </dateline>
<p> President meets Cong. Washburne (Ill.) on
shore in morning and hands him letter for Robert at front. <bibl default='NO'>Rice,
44.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Marquis de Chambrun and Sen. Sumner (Mass.) go aboard
"River Queen," and President shows them seating arrangement of Hampton Roads
Conference. <bibl default='NO'>Rufus R. Wilson, ed., <title>Intimate Memories of
Lincoln</title> (Elmira, NY: Primavera Press, 1942), 581.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Presidential party, including <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> and
friends, goes by special train to Petersburg. <bibl default='NO'>Rufus R. Wilson, ed.,
<title>Intimate Memories of Lincoln</title> (Elmira, NY: Primavera Press,
1942), 581.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President inspects hospital camps and confers with
generals at headquarters on far side of town. On drive back to railroad
station, stops to have everyone admire tree he remembers from previous visit.
<bibl default='NO'>Adolphe de Pineton, marquis de Chambrun, <title>Impressions of Lincoln
and the Civil War: A Foreigner's Account</title> (New York: Random House,
1952), 78-83.</bibl>
</p>
<p> In evening military band gives farewell concert
on board "<ship teiForm='name'>River Queen</ship>." President requests two numbers:
"Marseillaise" and "Dixie." <bibl default='NO'>Adolphe de Pineton, marquis de Chambrun,
<title>Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War: A Foreigner's Account</title>
(New York: Random House, 1952), 78-83.</bibl>
</p>
<p> At 11 P.M. Presidential
party leaves City Point, for return trip to Washington. <bibl default='NO'>National
Intelligencer, 10 April 1865.</bibl>
</p>
<quote>
<p> [About 1 P.M. Generals
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee meet at Appomattox Court House (Va.) where
Grant accepts the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.] </p>
</quote>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-09'>Sunday, April
9, 1865.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> on <place key='' teiForm='name'>Steamboat <ital>River
Queen</ital>
</place> and <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> "That
whole day [steaming up Potomac] the conversation turned on literary subjects.
Mr. Lincoln read aloud to us for several hours. Most of the passages he
selected were from Shakespeare." <bibl default='NO'>Adolphe de Pineton, marquis de Chambrun,
<title>Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War: A Foreigner's Account</title>
(New York: Random House, 1952), 82-86.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President returns in
excellent health. "River Queen" arrives at 6 P.M., bringing President,
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, Tad, Atty. Gen. Speed, Asst. Sec.
Otto, Sen. Sumner (Mass.), Sen. Harlan (Iowa), Mrs. Harlan and daughter Mary,
and Marquis de Chambrun. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 10 April 1865.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Presidential party arrives about sundown. Streets alive with people. Bonfires
everywhere. Gen. R. E. Lee has surrendered. <bibl default='NO'>William H. Crook, "Lincoln's
Last Day: New Facts Now Told for the First Time. Compiled and written down by
Margarita S. Gerry," <title>Harper's Monthly Magazine</title> 115 (September
1907):523.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President visits Sec. Seward, severely injured by
fall from carriage. <bibl default='NO'>Francis F. Browne, <title>The Everyday Life of
Abraham Lincoln</title> (New York: Thompson, 1886), 694-95.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Crowds in front of White House call for President. "He responded briefly but
pleasantly." <bibl default='NO'>Francis F. Browne, <title>The Everyday Life of Abraham
Lincoln</title> (New York: Thompson, 1886), 697.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-10'>Monday, April 10, 1865.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
Noah Brooks breakfasts at White House with Lincoln. "Castine" [Noah
Brooks], Washington, April 12, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 8,
1865. President visits Navy Yard in morning and makes brief speech.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 10 April 1865.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Interviews O. H. Browning on topics of the day.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Crowds serenade President throughout day. He makes extemporaneous speeches.
<bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 1408; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A840' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response to Serenade</xref>, 10 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:393-94; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A841' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Response to Serenade</xref>, 10 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:394-95.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Cabinet meets.
<bibl default='NO'>Randall, <title corresp='books_Randall1'>Lincoln</title>, 4:348.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
President has photos made by A. Gardner.
<bibl default='NO'>Frederick H. Meserve and Carl Sandburg, <title>The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln</title> (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1944), 10 April 1865.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
At 5 P.M. large crowd with bands assembles at White House. President
responds to serenade and promises to prepare speech for tomorrow.
<bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 11 April 1865.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
About 6 P.M. delegation of 15 men enters White House and meets
President in hall. Spokesman for group makes speech and presents
Lincoln with picture of himself in silver frame.
<bibl default='NO'>William H. Crook, "Lincoln's Last Day: New Facts Now Told for the First Time. Compiled and written down by Margarita S. Gerry," <title>Harper's Monthly Magazine</title> 115 (September 1907):523.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Lincoln writes note to
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
: "Tad wants some flags. Can he be
accommodated."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A842' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 10 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:395.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes note to Sec. Welles: "Let Master Tad have a Navy sword."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A843' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Gideon Welles</xref>, [10 April 1865?], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:395.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-11'>Tuesday, April 11, 1865.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington,
DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> President consults with Gen. Butler on freed Negro
problem. <bibl default='NO'>Butler, <title corresp='books_Butler2'>Correspondence</title>,
5:589; <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:588.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Marshal Lamon and Sec. Usher call on President, who sends Lamon to Richmond on
business connected with reconstruction convention. <bibl default='NO'>Lamon,
<title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>, 279-81.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Cabinet meets. Cotton question chief topic. <bibl default='NO'>Welles,
<title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President issues
proclamation closing certain ports of entry and proclamation concerning foreign
port privileges. <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A846' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation
Concerning Blockade</xref>, 11 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:396-97;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A847' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation
Modifying Bloackade of Key West, Florida</xref>, 11 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:397;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A848' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Proclamation
Concerning Foreign Port Privileges</xref>, 11 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:397-98.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Makes
public address from upper window to crowd on White House lawn. <bibl default='NO'>Washington
Star, 11 April 1865.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Grand celebration. President appears at
one window and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> at another. Reads
speech. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Star, 12 April 1865.</bibl>
</p>
<p> In this, his last
public speech, President discusses status of Confederate States and his plan
for restoring them to their place in Union. <bibl default='NO'>Albert G. Riddle,
<title>Recollections of War Times: Reminiscences of Men and Events in
Washington, 1860-1865</title> (New York: Putnam, 1895), 329;
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A850' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Last
Public Address</xref>, 11 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:399-405.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Writes pass:
"Allow the bearer, W. H. Lamon &friend, with ordinary baggage to pass from
Washington to Richmond and return." <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A845' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Pass
for Ward H. Lamon</xref>, 11 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:395.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> writes Gen. Grant that President is
ill but "would be very much pleased to see you this . . . evening . . . &I
want you to drive . . . with us to see the illumination." <bibl default='NO'>
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:588.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-12'>Wednesday, April 12, 1865.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
After breakfast O. H. Browning introduces to President W. J. Bibb,
influential Unionist of Montgomery, Ala., interested in
reconstruction, and receives various passes and orders.
<bibl default='NO'>Browning, <title corresp='books_Browning'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Col. William P. Kellogg (resd.), former chief justice of Nebraska
Territory, and Sen. Harlan (Iowa) interview President in morning
about appointment of governor of Nebraska and in evening discuss
problem of rehabilitation of Southern States.
<bibl default='NO'>Paul M. Angle, ed., "The Recollections of William Pitt Kellogg," <title>Abraham Lincoln Quarterly</title> 3 (September 1945):332-35.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
In conversation with Marquis de Chambrun, Lincoln "spoke at length of
the many struggles he foresaw in the future and declared his firm
resolution to stand for clemency against all opposition."
<bibl default='NO'>Adolphe de Pineton, marquis de Chambrun, <title>Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War: A Foreigner's Account</title> (New York: Random House, 1952), 93.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Visits
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
in War Dept. about 5 P.M. and decides to revoke
permission for convocation of Virginia Assembly.
<bibl default='NO'>Flower, <title corresp='books_Flower'>Stanton</title>, 271-72.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Telegraphs Gen. Weitzel: "Is there any sign of the rebel Legislature
coming together on the understanding of my letter to you? If there is
any such sign, inform me what it is; if there is no such sign you may
as [well] withdraw the offer."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A853' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Godfrey Weitzel</xref>, 12 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:405-6.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Explains to Weitzel that former Assoc. Justice J. A. Campbell is in
error if he understands Confederate Legislature of Virginia is
accepted as rightful legislature of State. It is but "the gentlemen
who have <uLine>acted</uLine> as the Legislature of Virginia in
support of the rebellion." However they have de facto power "to
withdraw the Virginia troops, and other support from resistance to
the General Government," and for this purpose they were encouraged to
meet. Since Virginia troops have been captured by Gen. Grant, do not
let them assemble.
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A854' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Godfrey Weitzel</xref>, 12 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:406-8; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1, XLVI, pt. 3, 725.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes Weitzel: "I do not remember hearing prayers spoken of while I
was in Richmond; but I have no doubt you have acted in what appeared
to you to be the spirit and temper manifested by me while there."
[
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
had reprimanded Weitzel for not ordering prayers for
President in churches.]
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A853' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Godfrey Weitzel</xref>, 12 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:405-6; <title corresp='books_War'>Official Records—Armies</title> 1, XLVI, pt. 3, 724.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-13'>Thursday, April 13, 1865.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.
</dateline>
<p>
President visits telegraph office early in morning. Exchanges
pleasantries with operator, Charles A. Tinker, and goes to
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person>
's office.
<bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph Office</title>, 206.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Interviews Gen. Grant and
<person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Stanton</person>
on military problems.
<bibl default='NO'>Josiah G. Holland, <title>The Life of Abraham Lincoln</title> (Springfield, MA: G. Bill, 1866), 512.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Confers again with Sec. Welles regarding reestablishment of authority
in Confederate States.
<bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Rides horseback to Soldiers' Home. Discusses various topics with
Asst. Sec. of Treasury Maunsell B. Field, who is riding in carriage.
Appears weary and sad.
<bibl default='NO'>Maunsell B. Field, <title>Memories of Many Men and of Some Women</title> (New York: Harper, 1874), 321.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Issues series of passes: to "visit Mobile, if, and when the city
shall be in our possession;" to "our lines into Virginia
& return;" and "to Richmond if he chooses."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A857' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Pass for A. B. Darling</xref>, 13 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:409; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A858' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Pass for G. T. Jenkins and J. M. Hiatt</xref>, 13 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:409; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A859' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Pass for Robert C. Schenck</xref>, 13 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:409; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A860' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Pass for James W. Singleton</xref>, 13 April 1865, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:410.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Writes check to "Self" for $800.00.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:588.</bibl>
</p>
</div2>
<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
<dateline>
<date value='1865-04-14'>Friday, April
14, 1865.</date>
<place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>. </dateline>
<p> Capt. Robert
Lincoln arrives in Washington from scene of Gen. R. E. Lee's surrender at
Appomattox, Va., in time for 8 A.M. breakfast with President. <bibl default='NO'>Helm,
<title corresp='books_Helm'>Mary</title>, 259; Francis F. Browne, <title>The
Everyday Life of Abraham Lincoln</title> (New York: Thompson, 1886),
701-2.</bibl>
</p>
<p> During morning Lincoln confers at length with Cong.
Colfax (Ind.), who is preparing to visit West Coast. <bibl default='NO'>Willard H. Smith,
<title>Schuyler Colfax: The Changing Fortunes of a Political Idol</title>
(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Collections, 1952), 207.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Interviews former Sen. Hale (N.H.), newly appointed minister to Spain, and goes
for short drive with Gen. Grant, in town for cabinet meeting. Receives many
members of Congress who call to congratulate him on successful conclusion of
war. <bibl default='NO'>Francis F. Browne, <title>The Everyday Life of Abraham
Lincoln</title> (New York: Thompson, 1886), 701-2.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Interviews
William A. Howard, Detroit lawyer. <bibl default='NO'>James A. Bishop, <title>The Day
Lincoln was Shot</title> (New York: Harper, 1955), 115.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Writes
Gen. Van Alen: "I thank you for the assurance you give me that I shall be
supported by conservative men like yourself, in the efforts I may make to
restore the Union, so as to make it, to use your language, a Union of hearts
and hands as well as of States." <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A872' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to James H. Van Alen</xref>, 14 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:413.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Visits cipher
room of War Dept., tells Gen. Thomas T. Eckert of plans to attend theater, and
invites him to come along. <bibl default='NO'>Bates, <title corresp='books_Bates1'>Telegraph
Office</title>, 367.</bibl>
</p>
<p> About 10 A.M. Gov. Swann (Md:) and Sen.
Creswell (Md.) present memorandum concerning Maryland appointments. <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A865' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Memorandum
Concerning Maryland Appointments</xref>, 14 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:411.</bibl>
</p>
<p> At 11 A.M.
cabinet meets. <bibl default='NO'>Welles, <title corresp='books_Welles1'>Diary</title>.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Grant reports to cabinet
on surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox, and <person key='ST16686' teiForm='name'>Sec. Stanton</person> presents draft of plan for reestablishing
authority in Confederate States. <bibl default='NO'>Flower, <title corresp='books_Flower'>Stanton</title>, 301.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President tells
several cabinet members about his recurring dream of ship "moving with great
rapidity toward a dark and indefinite shore," that presages Union victories.
<bibl default='NO'>David J. Harkness, "Lincoln and Byron, Lovers of Liberty," <title>Lincoln
Herald</title> 43 (December 1941):9; Lamon, <title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>, 118-19; Frederick W. Seward,
<title>Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, 1830-1915. By
Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary of State during the Administrations of
Lincoln, Johnson, and Hayes</title> (New York: Putnam, 1916), 255.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Cabinet meeting lasts from 11 A.M. to 2 P.M. Informal discussion relative
to what should be done about President Davis and other leaders of Confederacy.
<bibl default='NO'>Frederick W. Seward, <title>Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and
Diplomat, 1830-1915. By Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary of State
during the Administrations of Lincoln, Johnson, and Hayes</title> (New York:
Putnam, 1916), 254-57; Lamon, <title corresp='books_Lamon2'>Recollections</title>, 248.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Between 2
and 3 P.M. President lunches with <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>
in private parlor. <bibl default='NO'>Francis F. Browne, <title>The Everyday Life of Abraham
Lincoln</title> (New York: Thompson, 1886), 703-4.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Edward D.
Neill, White House employee, sees President about signed commission.
<bibl default='NO'>Rufus R. Wilson, ed., <title>Intimate Memories of Lincoln</title>
(Elmira, NY: Primavera Press, 1942), 610.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Lincoln interviews
Vice President Johnson at 3 P.M. Mrs. Nancy Bushrod, Negro woman, pushes by
guards and sees President regarding husband's pay. <bibl default='NO'>James A. Bishop,
<title>The Day Lincoln was Shot</title> (New York: Harper, 1955), 152.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Cong. Samuel Shellabarger (Ohio) calls on President at approximately 4
P.M. to discuss appointments. <bibl default='NO'>James A. Bishop, <title>The Day Lincoln was
Shot</title> (New York: Harper, 1955), 162.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Asst. Sec. Dana
reports to President at 4:30 P.M. that Jacob Thompson, Confederate agent in
Canada, is now in U.S. making ready to sail for Europe. Should he be allowed to
leave country? President is willing for him to leave. <bibl default='NO'>Charles A. Dana,
<title>Recollections of the Civil War. With the Leaders at Washington and in
the Field in the Sixties</title> (New York: Appleton, 1902), 172.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Sec. Hugh McCulloch makes friendly call on President. <bibl default='NO'>Hugh McCulloch,
<title>Men and Measures of Half a Century: Sketches and Comments</title> (New
York: Scribner, 1888), 222.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Around 5 P.M. Cong. Edward H.
Rollins (N.H.) calls on President to get petition endorsed. <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A871' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton</xref>, 14 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:413.</bibl>
</p>
<p> In late
afternoon President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> go for
drive. They stop at Navy Yard to view three monitors, damaged in Fort Fisher,
N.C., engagement. President talks of time when they can return to Illinois and
live quietly. <bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal
Finances</title>, 124; Rufus R. Wilson, ed., <title>Intimate Memories of
Lincoln</title> (Elmira, NY: Primavera Press, 1942), 430.</bibl>
</p>
<p>
Between 6 and 7 P.M. President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>
return from drive and find Gov. Richard J. Oglesby (Ill.) with other Illinois
friends at White House. Reads four chapters of Petroleum V. Nasby's book [David
R. Locke, The Nasby Papers . . . , Indianapolis, 1864.] to Oglesby and Gen.
Isham N. Haynie. <bibl default='NO'>Edwin C. Haynie, "At the Death-bed of Lincoln,"
<title>Century Magazine</title> 51 (April 1896):954; Helm,
<title corresp='books_Helm'>Mary</title>, 255.</bibl>
</p>
<p> After supper
President interviews Cong. Colfax (Ind.) relative to special session of
Congress and order of Gen. Weitzel. Former Cong. Cornelius Cole (Calif.)
accompanies Colfax. <bibl default='NO'>Willard H. Smith, <title>Schuyler Colfax: The
Changing Fortunes of a Political Idol</title> (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical
Collections, 1952), 207-8; Henry B. Rankin, <title>Intimate Character Sketches
of Abraham Lincoln</title> (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1924), 282.</bibl>
</p>
<p> At 8 P.M. former Cong. Ashmun (Mass.) sees President regarding cotton claim
against government. President gives him appointment as follows: "Allow Mr.
Ashmun &friend to come in at 9 A.M. to-morrow." [Ashmun considered this
Lincoln's last autograph.] <bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A873' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Card
of Admission for George Ashmun</xref>, 14 April 1865,
<title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 8:413.</bibl>
</p>
<p> President
exchanges few words with former Cong. Arnold (Ill.) while getting in carriage
to go to theater. <bibl default='NO'>Arnold, 431.</bibl>
</p>
<p> At approximately 8:30 P.M.
President and <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, accompanied by Clara
Harris and Maj. Henry R. Rathbone, enter Ford's Theatre for performance of "Our
American Cousin" featuring Laura Keene. <bibl default='NO'>Washington Chronicle, 16 April
1865; Washington Star, 14 April 1865.< |
