"The echoes of his funeral knell vibrate through the world, and the friends of freedom of every tongue and in every clime are his mourners. -- Bancroft on Prest. Lincoln"--t.p

Includes index--p. 269-272

Book, cloth; spine and cover titles embossed in gold

Memorable days and events proceeding the President's death -- Visit of the President to the Army and to Richmond, and return -- President's last day on Earth -- Threats of assassination -- Assassination of the President, and his dying scenes -- Testimony in regard to the assassination, and accounts of eye-witnesses -- John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of the President -- Inauguration of President Johnson -- Meeting of senators and members of the House of Representatives -- Meeting of clergymen, their visit to President Johnson -- President Lincoln's remains lying in state in the presidential mansion -- Funeral services at the President's house -- Funeral procession from the presidential mansion to the Capitol -- Official orders concerning the President's death -- Action of the diplomatic body -- Tributes to the states represented at Washington -- Tributes of the courts and civic bodies in Washington -- Funeral honors on the route from Washington to Springfield -- Tributes and sympathy of foreign nations -- Meeting of Americans in foreign countries -- National humiliation and prayer -- Favorite poem of President Lincoln -- Historic apostrophe

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