Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Diary of Julia Ward Howe: April 27, 1865

. . . heard of Wilkes Booth's death — shot on refusing to give himself up — the best thing that could have happened to himself and his family.

SOURCE: Laura E. Richards & Maud Howe Elliott, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, Large-Paper Edition, Volume 1, p. 221

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