Yesterday windy,
to-day bright and calm.
It appears that the
day of the death of President Lincoln was appointed for illuminations and
rejoicings on the surrender of Lee. There is no intelligence of the death of
Mr. Seward or his son. It was a dastardly deed—surely the act of a madman.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate
States Capital, Volume 2, p. 480
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