Posted on 04/16/2025 7:44:08 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 15 -- 4:10 A.M.
To Major Gen. Dix:
The President continues insensible and is sinking.
Secretary SEWARD remains without change
FREDERICK SEWARD'S Skull is fractured in two places, besides a severe cut upon the head.
The attendant is still alive, but hopeless. Maj. SEWARD's wound is not dangerous.
It is now ascertained with reasonable certainty that two assassins were engaged in the horrible crime, WILKES BOOTH being the one that shot the President, and the other companion of his whose name is not a known, but whose description is so clear that he can hardly escape. It appears from a letter found in BOOTH's trunk that the murder was planned before the 4th of March, but fell through then because the accomplice backed out until "Richmond could be heard from." BOOTH and his accomplice were at the livery stable at six o'clock last evening, and left there with their horses about ten o'clock, or shortly before that hour.
It would seem that they had for several days been seeking their chance, but for some unknown reason it was not carried into effect until last night.
One of them has evidently made his way to Baltimore -- the other has not yet been traced.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 15.
Major-Gen. Dix:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN died this morning at twenty-two minutes after seven o'clock.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 15 -- 3 P.M.
Maj.-Gen. Dix, New-York:
Official notice of the death of the late President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, was given by the heads of departments this morning to ANDREW JOHNSON, Vice-President, upon whom the constitution devolved the office of President. Mr. JOHNSON, upon receiving this notice, appeared before the Hon. SALMON P. CHASE, Chief Justice of the United States,
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Our Great Loss: Death of President Lincoln – 2-4
The Succession: Mr. Johnson Inaugurated as President – 4
From Richmond – 4
The National Calamity: Popular Feeling in New-York and the Country – 5-6
From North Carolina: Affairs at Goldsboro – 6-7
From Petersburgh: Gen. Lee’s Headquarters – 7
The Generals Lee – 7-8
The Grant Family – 8
The Indian Campaign: Important Reconnaissance – 8
News from Washington – 8-9
John Wilkes Booth – 9
Editorial: The Murder of President Lincoln – 9-10
Yesterday – 10
Editorial: The Rebel Leaders and the Treatment they Should Receive – 10-11
The Last British Prophesy – 11
A Nation in Mourning – 11
General News – 11
A Friendly Word – 11
Sailing of the Nova Scotian – 11
Great commentary from the day:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45480/when-lilacs-last-in-the-dooryard-bloomd
I didn’t realize Seward got a head injury and was pretty close to death. His near-assassination sort of gets lost in light of the shocking murder of Lincoln.
Also, I forgot the name of Seward’s attacker.
The future changed from this.
So was the Vice President involved in the conspiracy ?
Why oh why did Lincoln have to run with a democrat !!!
Lincoln chose Johnson as a War Democrat. The both ran under the banner of the National Union Party. This was to bring war Democrats into the tent.
I remember Seward fell off a horse not too long before the assassination, so he was hurt pretty bad even before that.
Given the more isolationist tone of many FReepers these days, and our further distance from the WWII generation, I wonder if that coverage would be as well reviewed now as it was, was that 10 years ago?
I did not know that!
All in all, Seward had a pretty rough week.
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