When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln: Southern Reaction to the AssassinationMercer University Press, 1997 - 136 pages In the morning hours of 15 April 1865, tolling bells in Washington declared the devastating news of Lincoln's death. For the first time in the nation's history a president had been assassinated. As news of the assassination reached the conquered South, church bells in the former Confederacy joined in the pealing. From the President's election through the end of the Civil War, Southerners had blamed Lincoln for their misfortune and ultimate downfall. Yet in the days after the assassination, Confederates gladdened by Lincoln's death feared Northern reprisals and dared not express their feelings openly. As word spread across the South, however, many ex-Confederates turned to their diaries and journals, where they poured out their fears and wrath with impunity and without restraint. After more than four years researching and writing, Carolyn L. Harrell has produced a unique and fascinating analysis of Southerners' reactions to the death of Abraham Lincoln. |
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... wrote in diaries , letters , journals . They jotted their thoughts in daybooks , scribbled crude drawings in notebooks , and secreted their personal papers from the eyes of the enemy , of whom they spoke only surreptitiously among ...
... wrote in diaries , letters , journals . They jotted their thoughts in daybooks , scribbled crude drawings in notebooks , and secreted their personal papers from the eyes of the enemy , of whom they spoke only surreptitiously among ...
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... wrote her sister about her deep concerns for her son . Other members of the large Jones clan kept their aged parent informed of personal and war news . Caroline S. Jones expressed her own sentiments and probably those of most other ...
... wrote her sister about her deep concerns for her son . Other members of the large Jones clan kept their aged parent informed of personal and war news . Caroline S. Jones expressed her own sentiments and probably those of most other ...
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... wrote , but he did " deprecate the cruel manner of his taking off . " Park assessed the reactions of his fellow prisoners . A large majority of them regretted Lincoln's death , he believed . " [ I ] n the wonderful charity which buries ...
... wrote , but he did " deprecate the cruel manner of his taking off . " Park assessed the reactions of his fellow prisoners . A large majority of them regretted Lincoln's death , he believed . " [ I ] n the wonderful charity which buries ...
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The Souths Lincoln | 9 |
Reaction in the Upper South | 29 |
Reaction in the Deep South | 53 |
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