Diary of Orrin Brown, New Bern, North Carolina
Saturday–Apr. 15th
There was about 200 more recruits came in here this morning. We drew our cup of coffee and a small piece of Salt Beef not cooked for breakfast, but did not draw any dinner today. We had a cool night and it began to rain about 9 AM and rained till about noon with considerable thunder. I read 3 Chapts. today. I wrote a letter home today.
Now he belongs to the Ages
President Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 am on 15 April 1865. He was 56 years old. Word would not reach North Carolina until Monday.
Read More:
- Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Edward Steers Jr (Univ Press of Kentucky, 2001)
- American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies by Michael W. Kauffman (Random House, 2004)
- Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War by Michael Vorenberg (Knopf, 2025)
- Sherman’s March Through the Carolinas by John Gilchrist Barrett (Univ North Carolina Press, 1956)
- Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman by Robert L. O’Connell (Random House, 2014)
- The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman’s Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns by Joseph T. Glatthaar (New York University Press, 1985)
- The Memoirs Of General William T. Sherman by W.T. Sherman (Library of America, 1990)
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