Reveille at 4 A. M. with orders to move at 6. Orders
countermanded on account of no rations. Went to sutler's and got cheese,
buttermilk and cakes. Beautiful day. Letter from Minnie. Papers. A report that
Lincoln was killed a short time since by an assassin. God grant it may not be
true, for the country's good. Am happy today, my mind peaceful. Saw F. last
night and night before. Lincoln assassinated. How great the loss to the country.
All boys but two took a verbal temperance pledge. Got my leave and took the cars
in evening.
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Note — After the surrender of Lee on April 9th, 1865,
the Cavalry Corps, including the 2nd Ohio, marched southward to strike the remaining
Confederate army commanded by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, which was still confronting
Sherman's army in North Carolina. Shortly after we had crossed the Roanoke
River and entered North Carolina word came to us that Johnston had sensibly
surrendered to Sherman and we marched northward to Richmond and Petersburg, and
on to Washington, in time for the Grand Review. This episode in the Regiment's
records is not mentioned in the diary because Major Tenney was at that time
absent on leave at home. — A. B. N., June 10, 1911.
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman
Harris Tenney, p. 160
