I was actively
engaged in bringing forward business which had been interrupted and suspended,
issuing orders, and in arranging for the funeral solemnities of President
Lincoln. Secretary Seward and his son continue in a low condition, and Mr. Fred
Seward's life is precarious.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon
Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864
— December 31, 1866, p. 291
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