THE CLOSING SCENES CONNECTED WITH HIS LIFE AND DEATH.

BY

HENRY J. RAYMOND.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

ANECDOTES AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN,

BY FRANK B. CARPENTER.

WITH A STEEL PORTRAIT, AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS:

NEW YORK:

DERBY AND MILLER, PUBLISHERS,
No. 5 SPRUCE STREET.

1865.

ALVORD, STEREOTYPER AND PRINTER

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865,

BY DERBY & MILLER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

1. PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, engraved by A. H. RITCHIE

2. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S EARLY HOME IN KENTUCKY

8. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S HOME IN SPRINGFIELD.

4. RAISING THE OLD FLAG AT INDEPENDENCE HALL

5. PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND HIS FAMILY, 1861

6. INAUGURATION AS PRESIDENT AT WASHINGTON .

7. PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION.

9. PRESIDENT LINCOLN ENTERING RICHMOND

10. ASSASSINATION AT FORD'S THEATRE .

11. THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

12. FUNERAL CORTEGE THROUGH NEW YORK

13. REMAINS LYING IN STATE AT CHICAGO

14. THE LAST RITES AT SPRINGFIELD

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