Lincoln mourning badge: 1865

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Lincoln requests a female friend to come to Springfield: Dec. 11, 1839

Lincoln plans to accuse a political opponent of being pro-black: April 17, 1840

Lincoln writes about his family: March 6, 1848

Lincoln on political patronage: May 16, 1849

Lincoln on the new Republican Party: ca. Feb. 1857

Lincoln responds to admirer of the Lincoln-Douglas debates: Jan. 8, 1859

Excerpt of Lincoln speech against slavery: 1859

Engraving of Lincoln’s Cooper Union portrait: 1861

Lincoln needs to discuss Fort Sumter: March 9, 1861

War Declared!! Friends of the South and justice, to arms!!:1861

Hopkins New Orleans 5 Cent Song-Book: ca. 1861

Lincoln plans a military campaign: ca. Oct. 1, 1861

Lincoln’s notes on recruiting black soldiers: ca. July 22, 1862

Abraham and Mary Lincoln recommend Thomas Stackpole: Sept. 30, 1862

Lincoln proposes a military plan to General Halleck: October 24, 1863

Order of procession for the inauguration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg: 1863

Lincoln pardons four young Confederates: March 21, 1864

Manuscript of Lincoln’s Baltimore Address, ca. April 1864

A Confederate prisoner requests pardon: Nov. 9, 1864

A man accused of conspiracy appeals to Lincoln: January 29, 1865

Lincoln gives William Seward front-line battle news, April 1, 1865

Lincoln writes to Grant in the final days of the war: April 6, 1865

Account of Lincoln’s death from a foreigner: April 1865

Newspaper coverage of Lincoln’s assassination: April 17, 1865

Newspaper coverage of Lincoln’s funeral: April 20, 1865

Jefferson Davis hopes Lincoln’s death will inspire the South: April 20, 1865

Lincoln’s law partner insists Lincoln was an infidel: October 29, 1881

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Introduction

In a sense, the country has never entirely recovered from Lincoln’s assassination. It is still the best known and most written about single event in our history and remains something of a national obsession.

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