A History of the United States Since the Civil War, Vol. 1 of 5 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Weber, F. Paxson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440090815 ISBN 13: 9781440090813

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2012

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Excerpt from A History of the United States Since the Civil War, Vol. 1 of 5

History was being made with great rapidity, and the North was in the midst of its jubilee, the louder and more heartfelt because the victory, so long anticipated, had been so long deferred. The surrender Of Johnston to Sherman and the cap ture of Jefferson Davis were expected at any moment, when it would be certain at last that the war was really at an end. Thus events stood when, on the night of Good Friday, the 14th day of April, Lincoln, while sitting in a box at Ford's Theatre in Washington, witnessing a production of Our Amer ican Cousin, was shot at and fatally wounded by an actor bearing a distinguished name, John Wilkes Booth. The Presi dent was quickly removed to a house across the street, and at twenty-two minutes past seven O'clock the next morning, April 15, his labored breathing ceased, and he was dead. The whole city, the Whole nation was stunned; the more so since it appeared that the assassination was but a part of a wide spread and carefully arranged plot.

An ex - Confederate soldier named Payne was assigned the task of murdering William H. Seward, the Secretary of State. Mr. Seward lately had been thrown from his carriage. His jaw had been fractured and his right arm broken. The brute, in making his way to the bed, seriously wounded the Secretary's son and assistant in the State Department, Frederick W. Seward, and several servants and attendants. The full purpose of the assassin was defeated, for Mr. Seward was not killed, though grievously hurt. Five persons were left bleeding from their wounds as Payne departed from the house.

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On Sunday morning, A pril 2, 1865, when Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of A merica, sitting in a pew inS t. PauF sC hurch in Richmond, received a message from General Lee, saying that his lines had been broken, and that the city must be evacuated, the great Civil War was rapidly nearing its end. The rest of that day and the ensuing night were occupied with the business of departure. The President, the officers of his hard-pressed government, with their records and funds, and many of the citizens, left the place used so long by the Confederacy as its capital, which so many lives and so much treasure had been expended in seeking to capture on the one side and in defending on the other. The next day, A pril 3, Federal troops entered to take formal possession, and on the next following day, Tuesday, A pril 4, President Lincoln, with Admiral Porter and a few other companions, under guard, was landed from a barge, and walked into the city, now abandoned by its inhabitants and in flames, rfor an inspectioh of the scene. Meantime General Lee, bent upon the salvation of his gallant army, led it out of its untenable position toward Danville in the hope of effecting a junction with General Joseph E. Johnston. Grant barred the way, and Lee changed his course; he now would reach Lynchburg.
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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440090815
• ISBN 13: 9781440090813
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 598