Sunday, April 15, 2018

"Now He Belongs to the Ages"

Abraham Lincoln died on this date in 1865 at the Petersen House in DC, after having been shot the night before across the street at Ford's Theatre.  He was attended at death by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who said famously as the greatest US president in history passed from this world, perhaps one of the ten or twenty greatest persons in world history, "Now he belongs to the ages."

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