"Glorious News. Lincoln and Seward Assassinated! Lee Defeats Grant. Andy Johnson Inaugurated President."
Erroneous dispatch originally published in the Demopolis Herald on April 19, 1865 (shown here reprinted in the Alabama Beacon on April 21). While correctly announcing the death of Lincoln and the inauguration of Johnson as president, it reports that Secretary of State Seward was killed as well; in f...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/6676 |
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