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[LINCOLN -- ASSASSINATION]. BRADFORD, Peleg. Autograph letter signed to C.C. McPherson, Washington, D.C., 15 April 1865. 2½ pp., 4o, with original envelope.
"THE NEGROES FEEL VERY BAD TO THINK THEY HAVE LOST THEIR FATHER": WASHINGTON D.C. AFTER LINCOLN'S DEATH
Writing on the day Lincoln died, Bradford (a very indifferent speller), furnishes a graphic description of the excitement and confusion in the capital in the aftermath of the assassination, with very unusual comments on reactions among black Americans: "...The air has been a great excitement here for the past 8 or 10 dayes over the greate fiting and surender of Leas army and the capture of Richman and Petersburgh and cap the whole thing the President was shot last night while he was at a theater on F Street. Great excitement in the City to day Secretary Seward has his throat cut and his son was stabed but it is thought they will recover. But the President died this morning at half past 8 o'clock. He was shot about 10 o'clock last night...The negroes feel very bad to think they have lost theair Father...Now I ast a negro this morning if he new that his Father was dead and he told me that he did and he said it was a greater loss to him..."
"THE NEGROES FEEL VERY BAD TO THINK THEY HAVE LOST THEIR FATHER": WASHINGTON D.C. AFTER LINCOLN'S DEATH
Writing on the day Lincoln died, Bradford (a very indifferent speller), furnishes a graphic description of the excitement and confusion in the capital in the aftermath of the assassination, with very unusual comments on reactions among black Americans: "...The air has been a great excitement here for the past 8 or 10 dayes over the greate fiting and surender of Leas army and the capture of Richman and Petersburgh and cap the whole thing the President was shot last night while he was at a theater on F Street. Great excitement in the City to day Secretary Seward has his throat cut and his son was stabed but it is thought they will recover. But the President died this morning at half past 8 o'clock. He was shot about 10 o'clock last night...The negroes feel very bad to think they have lost theair Father...Now I ast a negro this morning if he new that his Father was dead and he told me that he did and he said it was a greater loss to him..."