Lincoln's body on its way to Springfield... Frederick Douglass lecture...
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May 03, 1865
NEW YORK TIMES, May 3, 1865
* President Abraham Lincoln
* Funeral train towards Springfield
* Frederick Douglass speaks at Shiloh Church
Page 5 has: "The President's Obsequies" "From Chicago to Mr. Lincoln's Home" with subheads: "Closing Manifestations in Chicago--the Body Escorted on its Way--Mrs. Lincoln's Selection of a Burial place--The Journey Toward Springfield".
The back page has a small report on Frederick Douglass speaking to a gathering of "colored people" at Shiloh Church in New York, headed: "Lecture on President Lincoln by Fred. Douglass".
The front page has some end-of-war items including: "Probable Surrender of Kirby Smith and His Forces" and "The Sultana Disaster".
Eight pages, binding indents at the blank spine, two small repairs, one at the masthead & the other on page 5 do not affect mentioned content.
Background: This specific edition of the New York Times is a time capsule of a nation’s soul in mid-collapse and rebirth, capturing the exact moment the American identity shifted forever. It tethers the gut-wrenching finality of Lincoln’s funeral train—including the private, fierce ultimatum by Mary Todd Lincoln regarding his final resting place—to the soaring oratory of Frederick Douglass, who was then defining Lincoln’s legacy for a newly freed people. While the front page signals the definitive collapse of the Confederacy with the surrender of Kirby Smith, it simultaneously bears witness to the harrowing Sultana Disaster, the deadliest maritime catastrophe in U.S. history, which was tragically buried in the back pages by the weight of a President’s passing. To hold this eight-page document is to hold the raw, unedited heartbeat of 1865: a masterpiece of journalism that documents the simultaneous end of a bloody civil war, the birth of the Reconstruction era, and the immortalization of an American icon.
* President Abraham Lincoln
* Funeral train towards Springfield
* Frederick Douglass speaks at Shiloh Church
Page 5 has: "The President's Obsequies" "From Chicago to Mr. Lincoln's Home" with subheads: "Closing Manifestations in Chicago--the Body Escorted on its Way--Mrs. Lincoln's Selection of a Burial place--The Journey Toward Springfield".
The back page has a small report on Frederick Douglass speaking to a gathering of "colored people" at Shiloh Church in New York, headed: "Lecture on President Lincoln by Fred. Douglass".
The front page has some end-of-war items including: "Probable Surrender of Kirby Smith and His Forces" and "The Sultana Disaster".
Eight pages, binding indents at the blank spine, two small repairs, one at the masthead & the other on page 5 do not affect mentioned content.
Background: This specific edition of the New York Times is a time capsule of a nation’s soul in mid-collapse and rebirth, capturing the exact moment the American identity shifted forever. It tethers the gut-wrenching finality of Lincoln’s funeral train—including the private, fierce ultimatum by Mary Todd Lincoln regarding his final resting place—to the soaring oratory of Frederick Douglass, who was then defining Lincoln’s legacy for a newly freed people. While the front page signals the definitive collapse of the Confederacy with the surrender of Kirby Smith, it simultaneously bears witness to the harrowing Sultana Disaster, the deadliest maritime catastrophe in U.S. history, which was tragically buried in the back pages by the weight of a President’s passing. To hold this eight-page document is to hold the raw, unedited heartbeat of 1865: a masterpiece of journalism that documents the simultaneous end of a bloody civil war, the birth of the Reconstruction era, and the immortalization of an American icon.
Category: Post-Civil War
