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Peter Huder wrote from New Orleans to his friend Somers Sewall (1843-1867) in Portland about the end of the Civil War, Lincoln's assassination and the reactions in New Orleans.
Sewall apparently had asked Huder, who was about his age, to greet Sewall's father, Kiah B. Sewall, who was about to return to his family in Mobile, Alabama. Kiah Sewall, a native of Maine, had escaped from Mobile in 1864 when pressured to join a Confederate regiment.
Huder wrote, "In the midst of rejoyicing at the capture of Richmond, and Gen'l Lee, and the booming of cannon, of which they fired 200 shots successively in the Lafayette Square, in honor of the success of Union army, the very sad news of the assassination of our Beloved President and Secretary of State arrived, and then all rejoicing was done away with. Business was closed for the day and Stores, Public Buildings, and almost every house in the City was more or less draped ..."
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About This Item
- Title: Letter on end of war, Lincoln's death, New Orleans, 1865
- Creator: Peter Huder
- Creation Date: 1865-05-01
- Subject Date: 1865-05-01
- Location: New Orleans, LA
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 21.5 cm x 14 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 105, Box 3/5
- Collection: Sewall family papers
- Object Type: Text
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assasinations--Washington (D.C.)
- Sewall, Kiah Bayley, 1807-1865--Travel
- Sewall, Somers, 1843-1867--Correspondence
- United States--History--Civil War, 1862-1865--Personal narratives
- United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
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