The Capitol Dome

THE CAPITOL DOME 27 NOTES 1. New York Herald, "Services at the Capitol," Apr. 20, 1865, p. 5. 2. Although Lincoln was not buried at the Capitol, mul- tiple news reports referred to the Capitol ceremony as a "burial service." 3. New York Herald, "Services." 4. Barr y Schwartz, "Mourning and the Making of a Sacred Symbol: Durkheim and the Lincoln Assassination," Social Forces, 70 (Dec. 1991): 343-64. 5. New York Times, "e Obsequies," Apr. 20, 1865, p. 1. For more information about the Washington correspondents, see: Donald Ritchie, Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents (Cambridge, MA, 1993). 6. Betty Boles Ellison, e True Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biog- raphy (Jefferson, N.C., 2014), p. 184. 7. Benjamin Franklin Morris, compiler, Memorial Record of the Nation's Tribute to Abraham Lincoln (Washington, DC, 1865), pp. 73-75. Morris surveyed the newspaper and official records, excerpting and paraphrasing materials to create a coherent narrative from multiple sources. 8. e Ashland Union (Ohio), "News Items," May 17, 1865, p. 2. is newspaper reporter, as well as Benjamin Franklin Morris, states that the coffin was constructed from mahogany. However, it was actually walnut, as confirmed when Lincoln's casket was exhumed in 1901. omas J. Craughwell, Stealing Lincoln's Body (Cambridge, MA., 2007), p. 9. 9. Morris, Memorial Record, pp. 73-75. 10. Craughwell, Stealing Lincoln's Body, p. 9; ibid., p. 78. 11. Washington Chronicle, "e Obsequies," Apr. 22, 1865, pp. 1, 8. 12. New York Times, "e Obsequies," Apr. 20, 1865, p. 1. 13. Frank E. Edgington, History of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (Washington, DC 1961); Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., Twenty Days (New York, 1965), p. 126; New York Times, "e Obsequies." 14. New York Daily Tribune, "Our Loss: A Day of Mourning," Apr. 20, 1865, p. 1. 15. New York Times, "e Obsequies." 16. New York Daily Tribune, "Our Loss." 17. Morris, Memorial Record, p. 96. e complete list of pallbearers was: Senators Foster, Morgan, Johnson, Yates, Wade, Conness; Representatives Dawes, Coffroth, Smith, Colfax, Worthington, Washburne; Army officers U.S. Grant, Major General H. W. Halleck, Brevet Brigadier General William A. Nichols; Navy officers Vice Admiral David Far- ragut, Rear Admiral Willialm Shubrick, Colonel Jacob Zeilen; civilians: O.H. Browning, George Ashmun, omas Corwin, (former and future) Senator Simon Cameron. 18. Noah Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time (New York, 1896), p. 265. Brooks based this book on the newspaper accounts he wrote in the 1860s. 19. New York Times, "e Obsequies." 20. Kunhardt, Twenty Days, p. 131. 21. New York Times, "e Obsequies." 22. Washington Chronicle, "e Obsequies." 23. New York Herald, "Services." 24. Ibid. Captain Newman, "who lost an arm and gained a reputation in the Mexican war" was praised in multiple accounts for restraining the crowds from entering the Capitol prematurely. 25. Evening Star (Washington, DC), "e Funeral," Apr. 20, 1865. 26. New York Herald, "Services.". 27. Ibid. 28. Ibid. 29. Ibid. 30. Washington Chronicle, "e Obsequies." 31. New York Herald, "Services;" (Washington, DC) Evening Star, "Funeral;" Kunhardt, Twenty Days, p. 132. 32. Washington Chronicle, "e Obsequies." 33. Evening Star, "Funeral." The catafalque has been preserved and is displayed at the Capitol Visitor Center. 34. Nichols. Washington Chronicle, "e Obsequies." 35. Evening Star, "Funeral." Other militar y off icers included Major General Henry Halleck, Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough, Admiral Silas Stringham, Major General David Hunter, and Brigadier General George S. 36. New York Herald, "Services." 37. Morris, 103. 38. New York Herald, "Services." 39. New York Daily Tribune, "Our Loss." 40. New York Herald, "Services." 41. Evening Star, "Funeral." 42. New York Herald, "Services." 43. Ellison, 185; Brooks, 266. 44. Brooks, 265. 45. Ibid. 46. New York Times, "e Obsequies." 47. Craughwell, 16. 48. New York Times, "e Obsequies." 49. Washington Chronicle, "e Obsequies."

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