The Day Lincoln was ShotWell-known journalist and historian Jim Bishop begins this book at 7:00 a.m., April 14, 1865, with Lincoln emerging from his bedroom, worried about a dream in which he saw himself dead. The book ends 24 hours later, with the surgeon general placing two silver dollars on the president's eyelids. |
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... Cabinet post for himself . The next visitor was Congressman Cornelius Cole of California . What his business was is not known , but he remained overly long and the President wanted to close his morning appointment list before eleven ...
... Cabinet post for himself . The next visitor was Congressman Cornelius Cole of California . What his business was is not known , but he remained overly long and the President wanted to close his morning appointment list before eleven ...
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... Cabinet , Hugh McCulloch , Secretary of the Treasury and the butt of Lincoln's gentle jokes about money , stood by himself at the start of his third Cabinet meeting , as though waiting to be asked to talk to someone . The curly ...
... Cabinet , Hugh McCulloch , Secretary of the Treasury and the butt of Lincoln's gentle jokes about money , stood by himself at the start of his third Cabinet meeting , as though waiting to be asked to talk to someone . The curly ...
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... Cabinet meeting continued . It had passed its second hour , and the President was pleased to note that , except for minor differences of opinion his Cabinet seemed to 140 p m.
... Cabinet meeting continued . It had passed its second hour , and the President was pleased to note that , except for minor differences of opinion his Cabinet seemed to 140 p m.
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