Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Nation's Grief, Death of Abraham Lincoln: A Discourse Delivered in the Chapel of the Officers' Division of the United States General Hospital, Near Fort Monroe, Va., Sunday, April 29th, 1865, and Repeated by Special Request in St. Paul's Church, Norfolk, Va
We have chosen the words of lamentation and grief, for our hearts to=day throb heavily at the portals of the tomb. The President of the Nation has fallen. There lies one dead in every house. For four long, full, historic years we have been sitting in the shadow of death, but never so sadly as now.
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