Chapter 29

The Last of Earth--Events of the Last Day of Lincoln's Life--The Last Cabinet Meeting--The Last Drive with Mrs. Lincoln--Incidents of the Afternoon--Riddance to Jacob Thompson--A Final Act of Pardon--The Fatal Evening--The Visit to the Theatre--The Assassin's Shot--A Scene of Horror--Particulars of the Crime--The Dying President--A Nation's Grief--Funeral Obsequies--The Return to Illinois--At Rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Abraham Lincoln _From an Original Drawing by J.N. Marble, never before published_

Francis F. Browne

Abraham Lincoln

THE EVERY-DAY LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN