NEW YORK HERALD, MAY 1, 1865 EDITION; LINCOLN ASSASSINATION

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Front Page – European View of end of the war and Lincoln’s death.

Page 5 – Lincoln’s Funeral Train –The passage of the Remains from Columbus Ohio to Indianapolis, Indiana. Scenes from each town the funeral train passed.

-Description of Lincoln’s funeral hearse and train. Description of Lincoln lying in state in the capitol building, and the body exposed to view. “the remains were, soon after their arrival, exposed to public view”.

-Condition of the two Sewards wounded in the assassination attempt by Payne.

Page 4 –Editorial – Lincoln’s Funeral Train in Indianapolis.

-Large numbers of persons arrested in suspicion of aiding the assassination, so large that a separate building in Washington has to be used for them.

-Condition of Mrs. Lincoln – has not yet recovered from her prostration over the President’s sudden death.

Page 8– Confederate Generals Mosby, Imboden and Rosser and surrender.

-Probable arrest of Confederate statesman Judge Campbell, who led the unsuccessful Hampton Roads peace negotiations with Lincoln and Grant.

-The Manner of Booth’s death a disappointment.    [KM]

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