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Lincoln's Death and Civil War Echoes in Honest Reflections
A retrospective piece recalls Lincoln's assassination and the trial of Mrs. Surratt, with images of Grant, Lee, and others, sharing Civil War era portraits from Harper's Weekly. It discusses valor, memory, and the Lost Cause while saluting Winchester's historic ties and local pageant plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harpers Weekly
Lincoln
South
North
Surratt
Booth
Harper’s
Foel
Edmund Rufffin
Se‘cession
Virginia
Fort Sumter
Farmers’ Register
Confederacy
Robert .E. Lee
Lee
Doctor Pritchard
Scotland
Consta Kent
Als
England
Constance
Constance Kent
Victoria
Wendell Phillips
President Lincoln
President Johnson
Phillips
Johnson
Union Party
General Grant
Point Pleasant
Ohio
Grant
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Danville
Duvall’Porter
Thomas Nelson Page
Claude Swanson
Professor Alderman
University of ‘Virginia
Thomas B. Fitzgerald
Gettysburg
Knights of
Duvalers
Winchester