Authors: Martha Hodes

Mourning Lincoln (71 page)

and mourning drapery,
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in New York,
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in New York State,
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in Philadelphia,
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and racism,
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in Richmond,
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in Washington, D.C.,
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women,
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See also
anger; fear; glee; hatred; rumors; silence; violence

Cormany, Rachel,
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Cornwall, Em,
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Craig, John,
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crape,
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See also
mourning drapery

Crawford, Martha,
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Cronkite, Walter,
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Cuba,
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Cumming, Kate,
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Dall, Caroline,
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Danville, Ill.,
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Dargan, Clara,
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Darling, Thomas,
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Davis, Alfred,
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Davis, Emilie,
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Davis, Jefferson,
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and assassination,
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and Confederate defeat,
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and Copperheads,
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disguised in wife’s clothing,
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escape and capture,
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as martyr,
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and newspapers,
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pardon of,
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as traitor,
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Davis, Varina,
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Day, William Howard,
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death: and African Americans,
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after Appomattox,
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after assassination,
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Civil War toll,
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and Confederates,
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ideal vision of,
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and Lincoln as last casualty of Civil War,
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of loved ones,
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See also
God, will of; grief; mourning; newspapers; sermons; shock; “why” question

Declaration of Independence,
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Dedham, Mass.,
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Delany, Martin,
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Delaware,
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border states;
specific locations

Democratic Party,
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Copperheads

Detroit,
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diary-keeping,
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Dinsmore, Edgar,
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disfranchisement, African American,
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Dorman, Orloff,
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Dorman, Rodney,
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and abolitionists,
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and African Americans,
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and Albert and Sarah Browne,
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and assassination,
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background,
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and Civil War deaths,
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and Confederate defeat,
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and Davis,
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diary of,
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and everyday life,
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and Johnson,
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and Ku Klux Klan,
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and Lincoln,
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and oath of allegiance,
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and peace,
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and postwar nation,
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and religion,
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and Sherman-Johnston negotiations,
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and slavery,
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travels north,
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Douglass, Frederick,
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and Lincoln’s April 11 speech,
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and assassination,
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and Fourth of July,
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and Lincoln,
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optimism of,
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pessimism of,
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and second inaugural address,
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and slavery,
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and white southerners,
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Downing, John,
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draft,
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Drayton, Carrie,
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Dreer, Mary,
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Du Barry, Helen,
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Dudley, Annie,
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Dunstan, Caroline,
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Easter Sunday,
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and African Americans,
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in Confederacy,
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in Union,
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See also
sermons

Eckert, Thomas,
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Edmunds, Amanda,
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education: for African Americans,
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for poor white southerners,
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Edwards, Abial,
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Edwards, Ann,
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Egypt,
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election of 1860,
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election of 1864,
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election of 1876,
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election of 1884,
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Eleventh U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery,
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Elliot, Mary,
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Ellis, George,
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Ellis, William,
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emancipation,
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See also
Emancipation Proclamation; freedom: African American

Emancipation Proclamation,
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Emerson, Mary,
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emotion.
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anger; faces; fear; glee; grief; hatred; horror; indignation; men; shock; women

Engels, Friedrich,
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England,
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British Empire; Great Britain;
specific locations

Europe,
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See also specific countries

everyday life: and African Americans,
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and assassination,
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and Confederate defeat,
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and children,
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and death of loved ones,
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and Union victory,
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See also
men; women

evil, theological problem of,
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Ewell, Richard,
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eyewitnesses to assassination,
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See also
Downing, John; Du Barry, Helen; Harris, Clara; Rathbone, Henry; Sawyer, Frederick; Shepard, Julia