BOSTON DAILY JOURNAL, April 17, 1865  

* Abraham Lincoln assassination 
* Closing events of the Civil War

Pages 2, 3 and 4 have content concerning both the Lincoln assassination & the closing events of the Civil War.
Column heads include: "Mr. Seward And His Son" "Further Particulars of the Attempted Assassination" "Reports In Regard To Booth" "Strangeness of His Conduct Before the Murder" "The Assassins & the Rebellion" "Booth the Assassin" "The Paroling of Lee's Army" "Indignation of Union Soldiers at the President's Assassination" "The Capture of Mobile" "EXTRA! The Tragedy at Washington--$30,000 Reward Offered for the Arrest of the Assassin" "Probability of the Surrender of Johnston's Army" "Condition of Mr. Seward's Family" "THE LATEST!  Good News! Johnston Capitulated to Sherman" "The National Calamity" "The Cradle of Liberty Draped in Mourning" "Mr. Lincoln's Death" "The Late Tragic Events" and even more.
Four pages, large folio size, never bound nor trimmed, nice condition. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.

Background: This April 17, 1865 edition of the Boston Daily Journal stands as a profound historical record of a nation in unprecedented whiplash, capturing the exact, chaotic intersection where the triumph of the American Civil War's conclusion collided with the sudden tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Printing just three days after the shooting at Ford's Theatre, the publication documents a fast-moving crisis: it tracks the frantic, nationwide manhunt for John Wilkes Booth under a $30,000 reward bounty, details the brutal, coordinated knife attack on Secretary of State William Seward, and records local grief as Boston's historic Faneuil Hall—the "Cradle of Liberty"—was draped in mourning. Simultaneously, it broadcasts the definitive collapse of the Confederacy through the paroling of Robert E. Lee’s forces, the capture of Mobile, and the breaking "EXTRA" of General Joseph E. Johnston’s capitulation to William T. Sherman. The ultimate significance of this artifact lies in its raw, unedited preservation of American history in real-time; it serves as a psychological mirror of a population pivoting instantly from the euphoria of hard-won peace to deep national trauma, illustrating how the birth of the modern, reunited United States was irrevocably baptized in political violence.