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Good Friday:
April 14, 1865 was Good Friday. That morning Robert Lincoln, himself just back from the front, showed his father a photograph of Robert E. Lee.
"It is a good face," remarked the president. "It is the face of a noble, brave man. I am glad that the war is over at last."
Later, Lincoln met with his Cabinet. In the afternoon, he went for a carriage ride with Mary telling her, "We must both be more cheerful in the future: between the war and the loss of our darling Willie, we have been very miserable."
Good-Bye Crook:
A few minutes before eight, a carriage drew up to the North Portico of the White House to take the Lincolns to Ford's Theatre. Before climbing in, the president turned to the guard who would not be accompanying him to the theatre.
"Good-bye, Crook," he said.
The young man was taken aback. Always before Lincoln's parting comment had been, "Good-night, Crook."
Colonel William Crook worked in the White House for 46 years, serving every president from Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt. This photograph shows him sometime between 1890 and 1910,. |