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Excellent Content Assassination of Lincoln Letter

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Autograph Letter Signed, "W.A. Hamblin" 4p. octavo, Fort Barnard, April 16, 1865, with cover, it reads in part: "...I suppose you have all heard the dreadful news of the murder of the President ere this. It does not seem possible that he could have been killed in the manner he was, after having for the last four years passed through so much danger, with his life in his hand, to be at last struck down by a drunken, miserable, play actor, a dissopated fool who did not know when he had don the deed and cried ‘Revenge for the South’ that he had killed a man who had that day been kindly urging the mild treatment of the rebels and who has on more occassions than one risked his reputation for honesty of purpose, to shield the south from the just deserts that she was receiving and has always stood ready to listen to any decent proposals for terminating the war. In killed the President the South has lost their best friend. With the feeling that has been awakened by the assassination of the President, the treatment that the Vice President who succeeds him, received at the hands of the rebels in Tennessee, the feeling that must prevail i nthe Armies of Grant, Sherman, & Sheridan and the Navy everywhere. I am inclined to think the South and all who sympathize with her will meet with rather harsh treatment hereafter, if the inhabitants of the SOuth are not reduced to a worse situation than the irsih under the English government then I am mistaken in the signs of the times, I am afraid they don’t realize what is in store for them, they will soon be undeceived if Johnson has his own way and I hope to God he will!...." Much more. VG.

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