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11. Cited in Ronald C. White, Jr., A. Lincoln: A Biography (New York: Random House, 2009), p. 659. 12. New York Tribune, Mar. 6, 1865. 13. Burlingame, Lincoln, 2:766. 14. Washington, D.C. Evening Star, Mar. 4, 1865; Sacramento Daily Union, Apr. 10, 1865. 15. Quoted in Burlingame, Lincoln, 2:766. 16. White, Lincoln's Greatest Speech, quote on p. 179. 17. Adams quoted in ibid., p. 184. 18. Quoted in Burlingame, Lincoln, 2:772. 19. Ibid., 2:771-72. 20. New York Herald, Mar. 6, 1865. Frederick Douglass used much the same phrase, remarking on the "leaden stillness about the crowd" (Douglass, Life and Times, p. 441). 21 Burlingame, Lincoln, 2:771. 22. New York World, Mar. 6, 1865. 23. Star of the North (Bloomsburg, PA), Mar. 15, 1865. 24. Lincoln to urlow Weed, Mar. 15, 1865, in Don E. Fehrenbacher, ed., Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 1859-1865 (1989; reprint ed., Library of America, 2012), p. 689. 25. On his 66th birthday, French began crating the inaugu- ral table to send it to the Massachusetts Historical Society. In his diary entry for that day, September 4, 1866, he described the table he had made several years earlier from three pieces of iron left from construction of the Capitol Dome: "the leaf, about 2 feet square, cut from a piece of a broken panel; the standard[,] one of the balustres, and the only one left of the balustrade around the opening through which the picture on the concave surface of the Dome is seen; the feet[,] one of the ornaments of the inner surface of the Dome. is table I had carried to the Capitol on the morning of March 4, 1864 [sic.], and placed on the platform erected for the second inaugural of Abraham Lincoln, the good, as President of the United States; and it stood before him, with a tumbler of water upon it for his use, when he delivered his inaugural" (Donald B. Cole and John J. McDonough, eds., Benjamin Brown French Witness to the Young Republic: A Yankee's Journal, 1828-1870 [Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1989], p. 514). 26. Sacramento Daily Union, Apr. 10, 1865, p. 8, col. 6. It's not clear if the Bible used in the second inaugural was the same one used in the first inaugural. at Bible is in the Library of Congress and was used by President Barack Obama when he took the oath of office in 2009. e Bible Lincoln used in the second inaugural was opened, possibly at random, to Isaiah, 5:27-28. 27. On three occasions Brooks repeated in print his story that Lincoln had repeated "So help me God" at the end of the oath. e first was in his dispatch to the Sacramento Daily Union that he sent on March 12, 1865, and which was printed in the April 10, 1865 issue. He repeated the same account in 1895 in "Lincoln's Reelection," e Century Magazine, 49 (Apr. 1895): 865-72, which became chapter seven of his book, Washington in Lincoln's Time (New York: e Century Company, 1895), pp. 216-41, quote on p. 240. 28. e full text of the song was printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Mar. 6, 1865. 29. Ben. Perley Poore, ed., e Conspiracy Trial for the Murder of the President (Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865), pp. 50-51. For the most detailed and best account of Booth's actions at the second inaugural, see the definitive study recently published in Terry Alford, Freedom's Fool: e Life of John Wilkes Booth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 223-27. Surpris- ingly, Alford's book, the product of 25 years of research, is the only full-length biography of Booth's life. 30. Technically, John P. Hale was a former senator; his term ended on March 4, 1865 following the inauguration of Vice President Johnson and the swearing in of the new senatorial class. Lincoln had nominated Hale as U.S. minister to Spain, a post he held until 1869. Lucy Hale later married Senator William E. Chandler. eir grandson, highly decorated Rear Admiral eodore E. Chandler, was mortally wounded by a kamikaze attack on his flagship, the USS Louisville in January 1945. 31. Frederick Hill Meserve, "e Prologue to Assassination," Life, Feb. 13, 1956, pp. 14-15. 32. Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Twenty Days: A Narrative in Text and Pictures of the Assassi- nation of Abraham Lincoln and the Twenty Days and Nights that Followed (1965; reprint ed., New York: Castle Books, 1993), pp. 31-35. 33. Poore, Conspiracy Trial, pp. 50-51. 34. Benjamin B. French to Francis French, Apr. 24, 1865, as quoted in "Presidential Inaugurations: Words and Images" on the Library of Congress American Memory website, http:// memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/piwi03.html (accessed June 18, 2015). Robert Strong, one of the Capitol police officers who helped subdue Booth, corroborated French's account in an affidavit dated March 1876 (Ward Hill Lamon, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865, ed. Dorothy Lamon Teillard [1895; reprint ed., Washington, DC: e Editor, 1911], pp. 272-73]. THE CAPITOL DOME 19

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