Ford's Theatre and the House Where Lincoln Died (Classic Reprint)

Ford's Theatre and the House Where Lincoln Died (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
0364570768
ISBN-13
9780364570760
Category
Reference
Pages
56
Language
English
Published
2018-03-14
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
Stanley W. McClure

Description

Excerpt from Ford's Theatre and the House Where Lincoln Died Of the great actor Edwin Booth. Early the next morning the President died in the Petersen House, directly across the Street from the theatre. When President Lincoln entered the theatre box that fateful night, prospects for the Nation's future appeared bright. The War Between the States was virtually at an end. In the Confederate States the people were returning to the weary task Of reconstruction, and many North erners were willing to forget the past in the solemn rejoicing Of victory. Both in the North and in the South the personality Of Lincoln was seen as the guiding hand in' binding up the Nation's wounds. The trials and agonies Of the tragic era which followed the conflict might have been spared the South had the Nation heeded the sublime spirit embodied in the words Of the Second Inaugural Address which spoke Of a peace with malice toward none, with charity for all. With the smoke Of the assassin's pistol, the mounting hopes Of an early recon ciliation vanished. The mild peace advocated by President Lincoln gave way to the outcry Of the Northern radicals for vengeance. In his death, as in his life, Abraham Lincoln has entered deeply into the folklore and history Of our country. He has become an eternal sym bol, to us and to the world, Of the heights to which a common man can aspire under a democratic way Of life. The Lincoln Museum portrays his homely greatness and the tragedy Of his death. At no place can the work of Lincoln as a national leader and as President be more appropriately commemorated than at the site where this work was brought to an abrupt conclusion. The Petersen House, restored as of that period, carries one to the days Of the Civil War and to one Of that war's saddest nights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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