# White House gossip

Author: Colman, Edna M. (Edna Mary), -1951

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73748

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=White+House+gossip+Colman&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Late April and early May of 1865 brought none of the usual springtime joys to Washington, the Capital City; its residents, in common with the rest of the nation, were shaken with grief over the death of President Lincoln. Public buildings and private houses hid behind dismal swathings of crêpe, and the people were still subdued with the harrowing incidents that had their beginning on the terrible night of April 14th. Previous sectional opinions were set aside in the general regret over the loss of the gaunt, kindly man whom the troubled, disrupted country had learned to trust. The tragedy at Ford’s Theatre, with the simultaneous attack upon Secretary of State William Seward, was the hourl...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/white-house-gossip-73748/chapters/11/index.md)