War Diaries (April 17) (nonfiction)

War Diary entries April 17.

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Cornelius Platter: April 17, 1865

Union troop receive news of that April 14 assassination of President Lincoln:

I never saw such a gloomy set of men in my life as the soldiers were after the news came…[h]is loss is a great calamity -- and the nation mourns his loss as she never mourned before.

• Diary of Cornelius Platter - The diary of Lieutenant Cornelius C. Platter, who provides a soldier's perspective on the march, detailing the hardships faced by Union troops, their tactics, and the local populace's reactions, including the movement of enslaved individuals seeking freedom.

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