CSPAN3 Discussion On President Lincolns Funeral Train May 3, 2015
And i am highly gratified that we can meet together this day not in sorrow, but with gladness of heart. Surely, the evacuation of petersburg and richmond, the surrender of the principal insurgent armies, has given all of us hope that we are going to see a righteous and speedy peace, whose joyous expression can hardly any longer be restrained. It was nearly a week after the signal news of the surrender at appomattox was received that i said to mrs. Lincoln, finally, after all of these days, i am beginning to feel like all this is over. We attended theater just before easter. But in the midst of...