1865: Syracuse mourns the death of President Abraham Lincoln
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President Lincoln’s mock funeral Hanover Square, April 19, 1865. Courtesy of the Onondaga Historical AssociationCourtesy of the Onondaga Histori
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By Robert Searing | Curator of history, Onondaga Historical Association
One Hundred Fifty-Six Years Ago: It is difficult to imagine, even having lived through the last year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the manic week endured by the American people beginning on April 9, 1865. That evening, newspapers in Central New York and all across the war-torn nation announced the remarkable news of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.
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boston corbett decides he s going to take a shot at booth. and he wants to shoot him in the head, just like booth shot lincoln in the head. only, he misses and nails him in the throat, and that severs booth s spine. put him down over there. is he dead? the day is ours. the bloody dog is dead. let us strive to finish the work we are in. one way or another, the south will have its retribution. useless. useless. paralyzed and bleeding from the neck, booth dies the next morning. his corpse is unceremoniously shipped to washington for burial, as the body of abraham lincoln makes a final hero s journey. the nation mourned dramatically for several weeks.