Download or read book Mourning Lincoln written by Martha Hodes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian examines how everyday people reacted to the president’s assassination in this “highly original, lucidly written book” (James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom). The news of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded a war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the personal and intimate responses of everyday people—northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, black people and white, men and women, rich and poor. Exploring diaries, letters, and other personal writings penned during the spring and summer of 1865, historian Martha Hodes captures the full range of reactions to the president’s death—far more diverse than public expressions would suggest. She tells a story of shock, glee, sorrow, anger, blame, and fear. “’Tis the saddest day in our history,” wrote a mournful man. It was “an electric shock to my soul,” wrote a woman who had escaped from slavery. “Glorious News!” a Lincoln enemy exulted, while for the black soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, it was all “too overwhelming, too lamentable, too distressing” to absorb. Longlisted for the National Book Award, Mourning Lincoln brings to life a key moment of national uncertainty and confusion, when competing visions of America’s future proved irreconcilable and hopes for racial justice in the aftermath of the Civil War slipped from the nation’s grasp. Hodes masterfully explores the tragedy of Lincoln’s assassination in human terms—terms that continue to stagger and rivet us today.
Download or read book The Nation s Grief Death of Abraham Lincoln written by James Marshall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Nation's Grief, Death of Abraham Lincoln: A Discourse Delivered in the Chapel of the Officers' Division of the United States General Hospital, Near Fort Monroe, Va., Sunday, April 29th, 1865, and Repeated by Special Request in St. Paul's Church, Norfolk, Va We have chosen the words of lamentation and grief, for our hearts to=day throb heavily at the portals of the tomb. The President of the Nation has fallen. There lies one dead in every house. For four long, full, historic years we have been sitting in the shadow of death, but never so sadly as now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Nation s Grief Death of Abraham Lincoln written by James Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln written by William H. Seward and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Download or read book The Uncrowned Nation written by Edwin Adolphus Bulkley and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Bereavement written by J Renwick Thompson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Memorial Record of the Nation s Tribute to Abraham Lincoln written by Benjamin Franklin Morris and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Black Heavens written by Brian R. Dirck and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From multiple personal tragedies to the terrible carnage of the Civil War, death might be alongside emancipation of the slaves and restoration of the Union as one of the great central truths of Abraham Lincoln’s life. Yet what little has been written specifically about Lincoln and death is insufficient, sentimentalized, or devoid of the rich historical literature about death and mourning during the nineteenth century. The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death is the first in-depth account of how the sixteenth president responded to the riddles of mortality, undertook personal mourning, and coped with the extraordinary burden of sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers to be killed on battlefields. Going beyond the characterization of Lincoln as a melancholy, tragic figure, Brian R. Dirck investigates Lincoln’s frequent encounters with bereavement and sets his response to death and mourning within the social, cultural, and political context of his times. At a young age Lincoln saw the grim reality of lives cut short when he lost his mother and sister. Later, he was deeply affected by the deaths of two of his sons, three-year-old Eddy in 1850 and eleven-year-old Willie in 1862, as well as the combat deaths of close friends early in the war. Despite his own losses, Lincoln learned how to approach death in an emotionally detached manner, a survival skill he needed to cope with the reality of his presidency. Dirck shows how Lincoln gradually turned to his particular understanding of God’s will in his attempts to articulate the meaning of the atrocities of war to the American public, as showcased in his allusions to religious ideas in the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural. Lincoln formed a unique approach to death: both intellectual and emotional, typical and yet atypical of his times. In showing how Lincoln understood and responded to death, both privately and publicly, Dirck paints a compelling portrait of a commander in chief who buried two sons and gave the orders that sent an unprecedented number of Americans to their deaths.
Download or read book The National Bereavement written by J. Renwick Thompson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The National Bereavement: A Sermon on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, Delivered April 23, 1865, in the Presbyterian Church, Newburgh In the present discourse I do not intend to draw a parallel be tween this king and the lamented President - two great rulers who were cut down in the mid-day of their glory - for in the one case we have only the judgement of men, but in the other the unerring decision'of God in his revealed word. In the death of both, however, and the deep sensation produced thereby, there is something in common, and much for instruction and warning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Assassination of Lincoln written by Lloyd Lewis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War officially ended at Appomattox soon after President Lincoln?s second inauguration. During his first term he had been widely viewed by special-interest groups as a good-natured, indecisive bungler, and worse. In the South he was still despised, and many in the North, especially the radicals in the Republican party, distrusted and derided his leniency toward the vanquished. On the evening of April 14, 1865, an assassin?s bullet irrevocably altered the way Abraham Lincoln would be viewed by Americans. In life a cunning politician, Lincoln became in death a selfless martyr. Lloyd Lewis explicates the mythology that evolved out of Lincoln?s death, the outpouring of national grief, the pursuit of John Wilkes booth and the conspirators, booth?s fate, and the frequent moving and reburial of Lincoln?s coffin.
Download or read book The Uncrowned Nation a Discourse Commemorative of the Death of Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Preached in the First Presb written by Edwin A. Bulkley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Uncrowned Nation, a Discourse Commemorative of the Death of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Preached in the First Presbyterian Church of Plattsburgh, N. Y. April 19, 1865 A ruler's death could scarcely have taken place at a more inopportune time we thought, and therefore our grief was aggravated. As in previous stages of our contest, we may err in our calculations of what is needful in an emergency, but it seemed to us, at the first intelligence of our bereavement, that it would be well nigh ruin to our national interests. Though we are recovered from this feeling, and more hope ful, we are still anxious and apprehensive. The ship of state will perhaps steer wildly we fear, now that the skilled helms man is taken from the wheel. His eye has grown wary as he has peered long into the cloudy night, through which we have been sailing - his hand has grown more firm, as the shock of the storm has threatened to tear away its grasp his heart has grown more undaunted, as danger has lowered more fearfully near. And now as we are approaching the shallows and bars, - the narrow and tortuous channels, - the sunken rocks and boiling breakers, - over and through which we must enter the port of peace, we need all these for our safe piloting into the haven of our desires. If I have not misinter preted public opinion, there has been an increasing confidence in President Lincoln's sincerity and integrity of purpose, practical and comprehensive good sense, - benevolence andmagnanimity of disposition, and whatever have been our theories of administration, whoever our preferred exponents of these, -the people as a whole, were settling down into acquiescence and trust, in assurance that the reins of govern ment were in wise and safe hands. It cannot be less than a severe calamity which removes him at this juncture. The man upon whom divine providence has let fall the mantle of succession may prove a true and fit man. God make him so, we heartily pray, in his private character and Official acts. Yet we mourn, anxiety largely entering into our mourning, for the proven and the trusty has been taken away, and we crave the quieting of apprehension, lest some national disaster be brought upon us by mal-administration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Sermon on the Life and Death of Abraham Lincoln Late President of the United States written by Charles Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nation s Sorrow A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln Delivered in the Larkin Street Presbyterian Church San Francisco April written by J. D. Strong and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Nation's Sorrow: A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, Delivered in the Larkin Street Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, April 16th, 1865 The scene presented by our city to-day is unpre cedented in the history of America. Every flag in town drooping at half-mast; every church and public building, and nearly every store and private dwelling, draped in black, and eloquent with grief faces that had scarcely shown a trace of sentiment for years, flashing or lowering with intense feeling; hard, stern-featured men weeping like women; every voice hushed to a whisper, yet keyed up with a will and resolution which no words can utter; the very air alive and electrical with emotion - all, all make it evident that the hearts of our citizens are touched with sorrow as they have never been touched before. These same sad sights and sounds of woe are everywhere around us. They are seen and heard in all the towns and vine-clad valleys of the State. They are echoed back from our granite hills and snow-capped Sierras. They are in all our bor ders, from the Klamath to the Colorado. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Victory Turned Into Mourning written by Alfred Eaton Ives and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Nation Humbled and Exalted written by Justus T. Umstead and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Nation Humbled and Exalted: A Discourse on the Death of President Lincoln, With Its Providential Lessons, Delivered in the Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church, on the Day of National Humiliation, June 1st, 1865 Humble yourselves, therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. - 1 Peter 5: 6, 7. The occasion calls for humiliation on the part of the whole people, and the casting of all our national cares upon the na tion's God. Summoned by the highest magisterial request, we appear, in common with our fellow citizens in every part of the land, around the altars of the sanctuary to-day for this great and significant purpose. From one end of the country to the other the sensibilities of a nation's grief will be touched, and the sacrifices of humiliation ascend to the most High. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The National Bereavement written by J. Renwick Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
