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Title: Page [104]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650418
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Transcription: Another fine day at work. The assassin of the Secretary of State captured and the mysterious writer to Booth arrested, he [makes] a full confession the [illegible] universal gloom prevailing Mobile captured, and runner of Johnsons surrender. No letters written the funeral takes place tomorrow. In the evening visited Mr. Moon [my] friend. -------------------------------- Tuesday, April 18. Another fine day. At work. The assassin of Secretary of State captured and the mysterious writer to Booth arrested, made a full confession. The same universal gloom prevailing. Mobile captured & rumor of Johnston’s surrender. No letters written, the funeral takes place tomorrow. In the evening visited Mr. Moon my friend. [5.] Note: The attack on Secretary Seward and his family was carried out by Lewis Thornton Powell (AKA Payne)(April 1844-July 1865) who attacked Seward with a large knife. V.P. Johnson and U.S. Grant were also marked targets but the plan fell apart (again see Steers). On April 17, 1865, General J.E. Johnston CSA proposed to Sherman to meet and make arrangements to end the war politically and militarily something not within the purview of military officers. Stanton almost went ballistic and rejected Sherman’s offer and Grant was sent to take charge. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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