Perley S Reminiscences Of Sixty Years In The National Metropoli
Chapter 103
PLUNGED INTO SORROW. Jubilant Over Victory--President Lincoln at the Theatre--His Assassination by Wilkes Booth--A Night of Terror--Death of Abraham Lincoln--The Assassin--Funeral Honors Paid the Dead President-- Ceremonies at the White House--Procession Along Pennsylvania Avenue --The Remains Rest in State in the Rotunda of the Capitol--Their Removal to Illinois.