It has been a pleasant spring day; reported to General Silas
Casey this morning; will be examined tomorrow; sat at Bradey's this afternoon
for pictures. The streets are thronged with moving bodies of troops. General
Burnside's Corps passed through the city this afternoon. President Lincoln
reviewed it from the balcony over the ladies' entrance of Willard's Hotel on
Fourteenth street. This is my first sight of President Lincoln and probably as
good as I shall ever have. I was just across the street opposite on the curb
and not crowded. He looked pale, very sad and greatly careworn. It depressed me
to look at him. The remembrance will ever be vivid. Burnside's Corps has
encamped near Alexandria for the night; saw Othello played at Grover's Theatre
tonight (now the New National).
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 39-40
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