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Posted on 09/14/2025 1:11:21 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The crowds were phenomenal. Pews always filled to capacity on Easter, but no one had ever seen anything like April 16, 1865…
Shot on Good Friday and dead on Saturday: The timing of the assassination made Easter Sunday 1865 a particularly important—and confusing—occasion, as shocked mourners came to church for what should have been a day of rejoicing over both the resurrection of Christ and military victory.
The reversal of fortunes was manifested materially, as churchwomen rearranged the colorful springtime displays they had readied. Easter decoration had become something of a commercial enterprise by the mid nineteenth century…As a congregant in Boston recorded, grappling with the juxtaposition of joy and sorrow, “This glorious Easter morn our Church put on the garb of mourning.”
African Americans claimed for themselves a special place in the outpouring of sorrow, and the prayers and sermons of Easter Sunday magnified Lincoln’s role as the Great Emancipator…Would they “have to be slaves again”?
Frederick Douglass, speaking extemporaneously in Rochester on Saturday, told the overflowing crowd that he felt the loss “as a personal as well as national calamity” because of “the race to which I belong.” Even the most stricken white mourners conceded the point.
“Do not feel like doing anything,” wrote sixteen-year-old Margaret Howell in Philadelphia…
Grief affected people’s physical well-being too, in all kinds of ways: lightheadedness or debilitating headaches, prolonged trembling, “prostration of the nervous system,” even days of indefinable sickness. The declaration of victory had enabled Moses Cleveland, serving outside Mobile, to bear his poor health more easily, but the assassination brought him back to the army surgeon, who dispensed medicine and orders to rest.
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He launched a war that killed 700,000 Americans, more than the number of Americans that died in WWII. He wasn’t very popular in some quarters.
Murdered by a Democrat.
From Great Grandfather’s memories:
[A]t the request of Governor Morton in September 1864, I was ordered to Indiana to act as Judge Advocate of the court detailed to try the members of the “Knights of the Golden Circle” or “Sons of Liberty.” These trials were finished sometime in December of that year, and I entered almost immediately upon the trial of the Chicago conspirators — St. Leger, Grenfel, and others, who had come over from Canada to engage in the enterprise of releasing the rebel prisoners then in Camp Douglas near Chicago.
While making the closing argument in this case, on the 17th of April, 1865, I received a dispatch from the Secretary of War, directing me to report in person immediately to the War Department to aid in the examinations respecting the murder of the President. I started for Washington the same evening, reached there on the morning of the 19th, and was “specially assigned by the Secretary of War for duty on the investigation of the murder of President Lincoln and the attempted assassination of Mr. Seward”, and a room was assigned to me in the War Department.
MOOD OF THE TIME
The gloom of that journey to Washington and the feeling of vague terror and sorrow with which I traversed its streets, I cannot adequately describe, and shall never forget. To this day, I never visit that City without some shadow of that dark time settling over my spirit. All the public buildings and a large portion of the private houses were heavily draped in black. The people moved about the streets with bowed heads and sorrow-stricken faces, as though some Herod had robbed each home of its first born.
When men spoke to each other in the streets, there were tremulous tones in their voices, and a quivering of the lips, as though tears and violent expression of grief were held back only by great effort. In the faces of those in authority — Cabinet ministers, officers of the army, — there was an anxious expression of the eye as though a dagger’s gleam in a strange hand was to be expected; and a pale determined expression, a set of the jaw that said: “The truth about this conspiracy shall be made clear and the assassins found and punished: we will stand guard and the Government shall not die.”
For no ruler who ever lived, I venture to say, not excepting Washington himself, was the love of the people so strong, so peculiarly personal and tender, as for Abraham Lincoln. Especially was this so among the soldiers; all members of the old army will remember with what devotion and patriotic affection the boys used to shout and sing, “We are coming, Father Abraham!” and will remember what a personal and confiding sort of relation seemed to exist between the soldier boys and “Uncle Abe”, and how those brave soldiers — veterans of four years of terrible war, inured to hardship, to sickness and wounds, familiar with the face of death — wept like little children when told that “Uncle Abe” was dead.
Pretty much the South had decided to declare war on the North who believed that the Union was a sacred and almost divine bond and that it cannot be divided. So if Lincoln did not mobilize his army in the beginning of the war, they would have impeached him.
Incorrect. The South just wanted out of The Union. They did not want war at all.
Wrong. Democrat slave holders launched a civil war.
History books are easy to find.
Until it was a war to end slavery. Bait and switch.
Do you believe the United States is a great nation today? Or do your believe it would have been a better place if it were broken apart 165 years ago, half slave and half free?
Ask yourself those questions and then pontificate on what the man did.
The Condederacy started the war. They are NO DOFFRENT THAN the left today. The Confederacy was evil.
Bulcrap. They fired on FT
Hunter. South Carolina got burned to the ground, like it deserved.
If that’s the case, why did they organize that big army? Odd thing for a bunch of pacifists to do.
Oh good. We havent had a Civil war debate on FR in…..a couple of days?
It was their fort in southern territory, South Carolina no less and they didn’t want casualties. They actually asked The North to leave and gave a deadline in order to make a PEACEFUL transfer. These are the facts. The South simply wanted to peacefully succeed.
Bullcrap. They tried to rip apart the US. They got what they deserved, and far too slowly. Lincoln was a bimbler. Thank GOD General Sherman made the traitors scream.
It was not their fort!
On December 17, 1836, South Carolina officially ceded all “right, title and, claim” to the site of Fort Sumter to the United States. Fort Moultrie, Castle Pinckney, and Fort Johnson, along with sites for the future erection of forts were ceded by South Carolina to the United States in 1805.
Yes they asked for it to be transferred back. A buyer may want to buy but a seller doesn’t have to sell. If the buyer just takes it, its called theft and can be resisted!
Look at our country now. Hopelessly splintered and permanently disunited. I always wonder what would’ve happened if The Northern bankers had let The South leave. The South is still like a different country today with a different culture in many ways although that has all been changing very fast.
The Nation is infected with Marxism, that started with FDR’s people, and it was not wiped in the bud like it should have been.
The North wasn’t just saying that they owned the fort. They were saying that they owned the entire South and everything in it. It was theirs to do with whatever the hell they liked including burn it all down and kill some or even all of its inhabitance if needs be. It really reminds me of America today. You disrespect people long enough and trample their way of life they will eventually rebel. It’s only natural and very predictable.
Re. Marxism It seems like it accelerated under Obama
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