APRIL 19TH, 1865: Secretary Welles recorded President Lincoln's funeral in his diary: "The funeral ion Wednesday, the 19th, was imposing, sad, and sorrowful. All felt the solemnity, and sorrowed as if they had lost one of their own household. By voluntary action business was everywhere suspended, and the people crowded the streets....
"The attendance was immense. The front of the procession reached the Capitol, it was said, before we started, and here were as many, or more, who followed us. A brief prayer was made by Mr. [P.D.] Gurley in the rotunda, where we left the remains of the good and great man we loved so well."
--Old B-R'er
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