The handwritten notification of President Abraham Lincoln's death is being offered for sale by a Philadelphia documents dealer. Nathan Raab, president of the Raab Collection, says the telegram was ...
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April 14, 1865, got off to a far better start than most days in the White House Mary Todd Lincoln. Sadly, it would be an all-too-brief moment of happiness before the day ended in unimaginable fashion, ...
It was Good Friday, April 14, 1865, and Abraham Lincoln was in an unusual mood: Happy. Giddy. He was a man freed of the heaviest burden any U.S. president had ever been forced to bear. The mighty ...
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