On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington. Our volunteers this week decided to take another look at the Bullis Collection's books on President Lincoln, and from the long list we chose this book to highlight this week:
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, by distinguished men of his time, by Allen Thorndike Rice (published in 1888 by North American Review.
The book's title is true to its contents: a collection of accounts and memories of Abraham Lincoln by such men as: General Ulysses S. Grant; Frederick Douglass, Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, Honorable Cassius M. Clay, and Walt Whitman--as well as 28 others. It also includes biographical sketches.
We invite you to stop by the Bullis Room and take a look at it. We also suggest that you allow yourself time to peruse its 656 pages (which includes illustrations, portraits, and facsimiles). You won't be disappointed.
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