Mourning Lincoln (45 page)

CWL:
Roy P. Basler, ed.,
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
, 8 vols. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953–55)

DHS: Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington

DocSouth: Documenting the American South, University Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, docsouth.unc.edu

Dorman diary: Anonymous diary [Rodney Dorman], “Memoranda of Events that transpired at Jacksonville, Florida, & in its vicinity; with some remarks & comments thereon,” Orloff M. Dorman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Duke: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

Duke-SWF: David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Southern Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth Century: Papers and Diaries, University Publications of America, microform

FDP:
John W. Blassingame and John R. McKivigan, eds.,
The Frederick Douglass Papers
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979–92)

FHL: Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.

GLC-NYHS: Gilder Lehrman Collection, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New-York Historical Society, New York

GWBW: G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Conn.

HL: Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.

HLH: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

HLS: Historical and Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Howard: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

HSP: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

LC: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

LSU-CMM: Louisiana State University Libraries, Confederate Military Manuscripts, University Publications of America, microform

LSU-RSPE: Louisiana State University Libraries, Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, University Publications of America, microform

LSU-SWF: Louisiana State University Libraries, Southern Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth Century: Papers and Diaries, University Publications of America, microform

MDAH-RSP: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, University Publications of America, microform

MDHS: H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore

MHS: Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston

ML: Morgan Library and Museum, New York

NARA: National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

NAWLD: North American Women’s Letters and Diaries, Alexander Street Press, alexanderstreet.com/products/north-american-womens-letters-and-diaries

NHS-NWF: Newport Historical Society, New England Women and Their Families in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Personal Papers, Letters, and Diaries, University Publications of America, microform

NYHS: Patricia D. Klingenstein Library, New-York Historical Society, New York

NYPL: Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library

NYSL: Manuscripts and Special Collections, New York State Library, Albany

PAJ:
Leroy P. Graf, ed.,
The Papers of Andrew Johnson
, vol. 7:
1864–1865
(Knoxville: University
of Tennessee Press, 1986), and Paul H. Bergeron, ed.,
The Papers of Andrew Johnson
, vol. 8:
May–August 1865
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989)

Princeton: Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.

RG94-NARA: Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, Record Group 94, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

RG109-NARA: War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

RG125-NARA: Records of General Courts-Martial and Courts of Inquiry of the Navy Department, Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (Navy), Record Group 125, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

RG153-NARA: Court-Martial Case Files, entry 15, Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (Army), Record Group 153, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

RIHS-NWF: Rhode Island Historical Society, New England Women and Their Families in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Personal Papers, Letters, and Diaries, University Publications of America, microform

Schomburg: Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

SHC: Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

SHC-AWD-South: Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, American Women’s Diaries: Southern Women, Readex Newsbank, microform

SHC-RSP: Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, University Publications of America, microform

SHC-SWF: Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Southern Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth Century: Papers and Diaries, University Publications of America, microform

SL: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

SSC: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

UTA-CMM: University of Texas, Austin, Confederate Military Manuscripts, University Publications of America, microform

UTA-SWF: University of Texas, Austin, Southern Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth Century: Papers and Diaries, University Publications of America, microform

Utah-AWD-West: Utah State Historical Society, American Women’s Diaries: Western Women, Readex Newsbank, microform

UVA-CMM: University of Virginia Library, Confederate Military Manuscripts, University Publications of America, microform

UVA-RSP: University of Virginia Library, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War, University Publications of America, microform

UVA-SWF: University of Virginia Library, Southern Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth Century: Papers and Diaries, University Publications of America, microform

VHS-CMM: Virginia Historical Society, Confederate Military Manuscripts, University Publications of America, microform

VHS-SWF: Virginia Historical Society, Southern Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth Century: Papers and Diaries, University Publications of America, microform

WM-AWD-South: College of William and Mary, American Women’s Diaries: Southern Women, Readex Newsbank, microform

WM-SWF: College of William and Mary, Southern Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth Century: Papers and Diaries, University Publications of America, microform

Yale-Beinecke: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven

Yale-Sterling: Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven

1
.
advertisement:
Washington Evening Star
, Apr. 14, 1865, pp. 1, 2;
citizenship:
William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik,
Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life
, 2 vols. (New York: D. Appleton, 1900), 2:289 (“Frederick Stone, counsel for Harold [sic] after Booth’s death, is authority for the statement”);
Stanton’s words:
Adam Gopnik, “Angels and Ages: Lincoln’s Language and Its Legacy,”
New Yorker
, May 28, 2007, and Gopnik,
Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
(New York: Vintage, 2009).

For primary accounts of the events in and around Ford’s Theatre and Petersen House, see Charles F. Conant to “Hattie,” Washington, D.C., Apr. 15, 1865, ML; Albert Daggett to “Julie,” Apr. 15, 1865, in Timothy S. Good,
We Saw Lincoln Shot: One Hundred Eyewitness Accounts
(Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995), 45–47; James S. Knox to father, Washington, D.C., Apr. 15, 1865, ser. 3: General Correspondence, Abraham Lincoln Papers, LC, available at memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alser.html; Charles A. Sanford to Edward Payson Goodrich, Washington, D.C., Apr. 15, 1865, in “Two Letters on the Event of April 14, 1865,”
Bulletin of the William L. Clements Library of American History
47 (Feb. 12, 1946), facsimile, n.p.; Frederick A. Sawyer, “Account of what I saw of the Death of Mr. Lincoln written April 15, 1865,” in “An Eyewitness Account of Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination,” ed. Ronald D. Rietveld,
Civil War History
22 (1976), 62–68; George B. Todd to Henry P. Todd, Washington, D.C., Apr. 15, 1865, McClellan Lincoln Collection, Brown; Gideon Welles diary, Apr. 15, 1865, Welles Papers, LC; W. R. Batchelder to mother, Washington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1865, NYHS; Augustus Clark to S. M. Allen, Washington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1865, accompanying scrap of bloodstained towel used for Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre, Special Collections, MHS; Helen A. Du Barry to mother, Washington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1865, in “Eyewitness Account of Lincoln’s Assassination,”
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
39 (1946), 366–69; R. B. Milliken to “Friend Byron,” Washington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1865, #54, Lincoln Room Miscellaneous Papers, HLH; Julia Adelaide Shepard to father, near Washington, D.C., Apr. 16, 1865, in “Lincoln’s Assassination Told by an Eye-Witness,”
Century Magazine
77 (1909), 917–18; and Clara Harris to “Mary,” Washington, D.C., Apr. 25, 1865, NYHS.

2
.
I hope:
Henry Gawthrop diary, Apr. 8, 1865, with addition from 1914–15, DHS.

For rationales for avoiding memoirs, see William A. Dobak,
Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862–1867
(Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 2011), 507; J. Tracy Power,
Lee’s Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness to Appomattox
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), xiv–xv; and James M. McPherson,
What They Fought For, 1861–1865
(1994; reprint, New York: Doubleday, 1995), 69; see also Don E. Fehrenbacher and Virginia Fehrenbacher,
Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln
(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996), xliii–liv.

3
.
deeper:
Joseph A. Prime, “Sermon Preached in the Liberty Street Presbyterian Church (Colored),” in
A Tribute of Respect by the Citizens of Troy to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln
(Troy, N.Y.: Young and Benson, 1865), 155;
swept, sea:
“The Great Calamity,” Apr. 16, 1865,
Sacramento Daily Union
, published May 17, 1865, in
Lincoln Observed: Civil War Dispatches of Noah Brooks
, ed. Michael Burlingame (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), 187, 192;
universal feeling:
Lucretia Hale to Charles Hale, Brookline, Mass., June 2, 1865, box 50, Hale Family Papers, SSC;
North & South:
Mary Peck to Henry J. Peck, Jonesville, N.Y., Apr. 16, 1865, Peck Correspondence, NYSL;
bitter:
F. J. Douglass to George Whipple, Eliot, Jamaica, Apr. 25, 1865, #F1-3837-40, reel 231, AMA;
even:
William L. Avery to U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Cape Town, South Africa, June 13, 1865, Letters Received Relating to Judges and Arbitrators of Mixed Courts at New York, Cape Town, and Sierra Leone, Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Suppression of the African Slave Trade and Negro Colonization, M160, roll 7, RG48, NARA;
everyone:
Elizabeth Gaskell to Charles Eliot Norton, London, Apr. 28, 1865, in
Letters of Mrs. Gaskell and Charles Eliot Norton, 1855–1865
, ed. Jane Whitehill (London: Oxford University Press, 1932), 122;
join:
Philip Alexander Bell et al., [no title],
San Francisco Elevator
, Apr. 21, 1865, #4828, BAP.

4
. For Albert Browne’s work, see Albert Gallatin Browne Papers, MHS;
shrewd, beg:
William T. Sherman,
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
, 2 vols. (New York: D. Appleton, 1875), 2:231;
now:
Brenda Stevenson, ed.,
The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 443 (Jan. 31, 1863, entry).

5
.
household:
U.S. federal census, Salem, Essex County, Mass., 1860;
house:
photograph, fol. 108, BFP;
Albert Jr.:
Report of the Harvard Class of 1853 … Issued on the Sixtieth Anniversary for the Use of the Class and Its Friends, Commencement 1913
(Cambridge, Mass.: University Press, 1913), 46–51.

6
.
Albert Jr.:
Report of the Harvard Class of 1853
, 46–47;
Forten:
Stevenson,
Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké
, 157 (June 18, 1856, conservative), 98 (Sept. 3, 1854, insulting), 369 (July 6, 1862, pariah), 140 (Sept. 12, 1855, kind), 139–40 (Sept. 12, 1855, Nellie), 141 (Sept.
[n.d.], 1855, society), 173 (Dec. 16, 1856, lonesome), 196 (Feb. 25, 1857, sorry). Nellie’s full name was Sarah Ellen Browne, and Forten referred to her as “Sarah Brown,” without the
e
(Forten also wrote about a friend named Nellie, but her last name began with
A
).

7
. U.S. federal census and slave schedules, Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla., 1850, 1860; see also Frank Mortimer Hawes, “New Englanders in the Florida Census of 1850,”
New England Historical and Genealogical Register
76 (1922), 49. In the U.S. federal census, Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla., 1860, the census-taker ticked off the box for “Married within the year,” though no one else was listed in Dorman’s household; in the U.S. federal census, Jacksonville, Duval County, Fla., 1880, Dorman claimed the status of single, rather than married, widowed, or divorced. I have located no marriage record for Rodney Dorman or Stephen Rodney Dorman, as his name appears in his birth records. See also Stephen Rodney Dorman, listed in Wilbraham, Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts,
Massachusetts Town and Vital Records
, Ancestry.com.