Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
_The parlour of Abraham Lincoln's House at Springfield, Illinois, early in 1860_. MR. STONE, _a farmer, and_ MR. CUFFNEY, _a store-keeper, both men of between fifty and sixty, are sitting before an early spring fire. It is dusk, but the curtains are not drawn. The men are smok...
_The parlour of Abraham Lincoln's House at Springfield, Illinois, early in 1860_. MR. STONE, _a farmer, and_ MR. CUFFNEY, _a store-keeper, both men of between fifty and sixty, a...
2. Chapter 2_White_: It's the common feeling in the South, Mr. Seward, that you're the one man at Washington to see this thing with large imagination. I say this with no disrespect to the P...
3. Chapter 3_A small reception room at the White House_. MRS. LINCOLN, _dressed in a fashion perhaps a little too considered, despairing as she now does of any sartorial grace in her husban...
4. Chapter 4_About the same date. A meeting of the Cabinet at Washington_. SMITH _has gone and_ CAMERON _has been replaced by_ EDWIN M. STANTON, _Secretary of War. Otherwise the ministry, c...
5. Chapter 5_An April evening in 1865. A farmhouse near Appomattox_. GENERAL GRANT, _Commander-in-Chief, under Lincoln, of the Northern armies, is seated at a table with_ CAPTAIN MALINS, _a...
6. Chapter 6_The evening of April_ 14, 1865. _The small lounge of a theatre. On the far side are the doors of three private boxes. There is silence for a few moments. Then the sound of appl...