Raynors HCA 2016-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/21/2016
War-date letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Laura J. Morgan (who is the recipient of all the Thurston letters offered here), Sunbury, Pa., April 15, 1865, to her beau Lt. William M. Thurston, Battery F (Ricketts), 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery, in part: "…all the church bells are tolling and all the flags are half mast mourning the sudden death of the President. This sad intelligence has thrown darkness over the glory of yesterday. Dispatches have just came from Washington saying that President Lincoln was shot and Seward's throat cut by a man who has been a senator. This horrible affair transpired in a theatre. If tis true I don't think a theatre was the place in which the President ought to have been found if he had been noble and good as Washington was. He would have been at home on his knees thanking God for what has been achieved by his armies during the last week. Tis perfectly awful that such an act should be perpetrated after close of the war and that too in the north and in a theatre. Next tuesday had been set apart as a day for general thanksgiving an rejoicing throughout North'd County. Now I think it would be more comely to mourn. This low act will be looked at by other nations as a disgrace to the American people which I think it is. I am glad that the war is so near ended and hope Uncle Sam will please be kind enough to send one of his sons to me…Laura J. Morgan [to] Lt. Thurston." Light soiling, else VG
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