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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