APRIL 18TH, 1865: Vice Admiral Farragut, in whom President Lincoln had placed great confidence, wrote to his wife: "All the people in the city are going to see the President in state. I go tomorrow as one of the pall bearers."
Meanwhile, the Navy was carrying out Secretary Welles' instructions to search "all vessels going out of the [Potomac] river for the assassins. detain all suspicious persons. Guard against all crossings of the river and touching of vessels or boats on the Virginia shore."
--Old B-R'er
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