GDG- Saturday, April 22, 1865

Tue Apr 22 15:26:30 CDT 2008

Ginny:

Will you please send me a private e-mail at:

Civilwar141 at msn.com

Thank you,

Ray Bauernhuber

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From: Ginny Gage
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:39 AM
To: Gettysburg Discussion Group
Subject: GDG- Saturday, April 22, 1865

Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:

New York Times 
Saturday, April 22, 1865

News of the Day.

THE REBELLION. 

            The body of the late President arrived in Baltimore yesterday,
where it lay in state for several hours.  The turn-out was immense, and the
sorrow of the people all-pervading and sincere.  Last night the funeral
cortege reached Harrisburgh.

            Some statements about Atzerodt, the accomplice of Booth,
appeared in the Washington papers of Friday, which were not sent over the
wires.  The story is that he was taken at 7 oï¿½clock on Thursday morning at
the residence of his uncle, near Germantown, Montgomery County, Maryland, by
a company of cavalry under command of Capt. Townsend, and brought to the
Reisy House at seven oï¿½clock in the evening. A cousin of a Atzerodtï¿½s was
also taken into custody.  Atzerodt is represented as cool and collected,
reticent, and, when questioned, responded only with a laugh.  At the time of
his arrest he was in bed.  He was taken to Washington in a special train,
and in double irons, and placed in a safe place.ï¿½  The paper further says:
ï¿½At 10:25 last night, the train brought George Andreas Atzerodt and Ernest
Hartman Richter, arrested about 4 oï¿½clock yesterday morning, at Richterï¿½s
farm, near Middleburgh Post-office, Montgomery County, Md.  They were
received at the depot by Col. Ingraham and Capt. William N. Wermeerskirch,
and taken to a safe place.  Richter stated that Atzerodt, who was his
cousin, slept on the 14th Inst. At the Pennsylvania House, formerly the
Kimmel House, in C-street; that he left Washington on Saturday and went to
Rockville by stage, there hired a buggy, drove to Gettysburgh, and then rode
on a farmerï¿½s wagon to Kloppersville, where he arrived late at night, and
remained till next morning; thence he walked to Richterï¿½s farm.  Atzerodt is
28 years old, five feet five inches in height, has a swarthy complexion, and
dark hair, moustache and imperial.   He seems to be shrewd; and was very
reserved in his answers.  Richter said that he had not seen him for about
three months until he came to his farm on Sunday last.ï¿½

            We find this remarkable paragraph in a Western paper; ï¿½About
eight miles from Shelbyville, Indiana is the little town of Marietta, a
place noted for nothing in particular, save the virulent type of
copperheadism prevailing there.  The reception of the dreadful news from
Washington set the honest Democrats thereabouts crazy with joy.  In the
absence of a cannon they loaded and fired an anvil repeatedly, shouted,
danced, sang, and in every possible manner gave expression to their demonic
joy, after which they constructed an effigy of President Lincoln, with a
rude representation of the bullet-hole in his head, which they carried about
the streets, a big ruffian following, and ringing a bell.  The effigy was
afterward burnt.ï¿½

            The Montreal Witness says:  ï¿½But our danger will be imminent if
any of the scoundrels implicated in this assassination (of President
Lincoln) make their escape to Lower Canada.  They would undoubtedly meet
here plenty of influential friends.  There would be found here Judges and
juries to decide that they had used only a belligerent right.  Indeed it
will argue a strange inconsistency if those papers which have been foremost
in screening the raiders, and have excused as a belligerent right the
assassination of an innocent civilian at St. Albans, find fault now with
those concerned in the murder of the Commander-in-Chief of the Federal
armies.ï¿½

            A notorious copperhead living in the vicinity of Waterbury, on
hearing of the Presidentï¿½s death displayed a flag with the words, ï¿½The Devil
is dead,ï¿½ upon it.  A party of young men proceeded in the residence of the
scoundrel, and made a demand for the flag.  The man denied having ex[   ]
any; whereupon a rope was fastened about his neck and he was threatened with
hanging unless he ï¿½showed his colors.ï¿½  He still stuck to his denial, but as
he felt the halter drawn tighter about his neck he confessed his infamy and
brought out the flag. After giving him a thrashing his visitors withdrew.

            At Camp Burnside, Indianapolis, on Wednesday, a soldier of the
Forty-third remarked that he would ï¿½have a hoe-downï¿½ over the news of
President Lincolnï¿½s assassination, and began [     ] around, and indulging
in extravagant demonstrations of joy.  His comrades swung him up by the
neck, so that his toes just touched the ground, and kept him there until he
was black in the face, and his spirit was just fluttering on the borders of
eternity. Others who expressed their gratification at the news were served
likewise.  Five, in all, were elevated.

            At Roxbury, Mass., on Tuesday, a party of men, including some of
the most prominent citizens of that city, numbering one hundred, called on
Mr. John M. Way, Mr. Franklin Woodside, Mr. Charles Davis, Mr. Wm. B.
Shattuck, Deputy-Sheriff Bradford S. Farrington, and Mr. Haskins, and
compelled them to display and cheer the flag, and in some cases to promise
that they would never again utter a disloyal word.

            On Monday last, at the headquarters of the Sixth Corps, Army of
the Potomac, the eighteen battle flags taken by that corps in the late
campaign, were formally turned over to the government by the brave boys who
captured them.  Gen. Meade personally thanked each man, and highly praised
the courage and devotion of the entire army.

            The latest news from Secretary Seward is that he has had no
fever recently, his wounds are healing and are less painful.   He is
considered to be doing very well.  Frederick Seward is slowly improving.

            Delegations from Ohio and Indiana called upon President Johnson
yesterday, and pledged the firm support of their States in his
Administration.  His replies were of the same tenor of those already
published.

            The greater part of the army of the Potomac was still near
Burkesville on Monday, but it was thought they would soon be ordered to move
toward Richmond and Petersburgh.

            A Southern girl at school at Saratoga was expelled last Saturday
for saying that was the happiest day of her life.

Ginny
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