Mary Henry, daughter of the Secretary of the Smithsonian, recorded an extensive description of Washington, D.C., as the city mourned President Lincoln’s death and prepared for his funeral.

George Himes, the typesetter for the Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Oregon, heard the news over the telegraph.

Reverend Leonard Francis Smith a Methodist circuit preacher in Girard, Illinois, reacted to Lincoln’s death.

Sarah Gooll Putnam, age 14, of Boston, Massachusetts, drew the look on her face when she heard about Lincoln’s assassination. She grew up to become a portrait and landscape painter.

Mary Sheehan Ronan’s Memoir published in 1929 recalling hearing the news of the Lincoln assassination in Virginia City, Montana.

Patent clerk Horatio Nelson Taft laments the news of Lincoln's assassination on April 14th, 1865.

Pablo Herrera, foreign minister of Ecuador, expressed his nation’s condolences to the United States on May 22, 1865.

Prince Gong of China wrote a condolence letter on July 8, 1865. Prince Gong, also known as Kung, was an imperial prince of the Aisin Gioro clan during the Qing dynasty in China, and was a regent of the empire from 1861 to 1865.

A correspondent for the Cleveland Daily Leader in Florence, Italy, reported on how Italians reacted to news of Lincoln’s assassination in an article printed on October 17, 1865.

A condolence letter was sent to Secretary of State William Seward from Mexican President Benito Juarez on May 11, 1865.

In April 1865, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom expressed her condolences to First Lady Mary Lincoln.

This opinion article was written in the Toronto Globe on April 19, 1865. George Brown had founded the Toronto Globe as a voice for reform in 1844.

Jane Betts, age 35, received this handwritten letter from her aunt, Harriet Farley, April 23, 1865. Jane lived with her son, Irving Metcalf, and her second husband, William Betts, in Burr Oak, St. Joseph County, Michigan.

William H. Kesler wrote this letter to his sister Rose Ann Kesler on April 20, 1865, from Little Rock, Arkansas. Kesler served in the Third Missouri Cavalry of the U.S. Army from 1862 to 1865.

An unknown woman named Mary wrote to her sister on April 15, 1865. She describes the woe and grief felt across the capital city on the night of the Lincoln assassination and the following morning.

J.D. McClure wrote to his parents on April 16, 1865. McClure’s letter mostly spoke of his moving to Memphis to start his business until he abruptly shifts to the death and mourning of President Lincoln.

Dr. Anson G. Henry was a close friend and personal doctor to Abraham Lincoln from Springfield, IL. Henry wrote to his wife on April 19, 1865. He attended to Mrs. Lincoln after the President's assassination.

Charles Adolphus Jewell II wrote to his parents on April 19, 1865 from Huntsville, Alabama. Jewell served in the 18th Michigan Volunteer Regiment, U.S. Army, until July 1865.

The Tri-Weekly Telegraph of Houston denounced Lincoln and praised assassin John Wilkes Booth when it reported Lincoln's death. The paper’s owner, Edward Hopkins Cushing, was an outspoken Southern Democrat.

The Alabama Beacon reprinted an erroneous dispatch from the Demopolis Herald on April 21, 1865. Note the source of the news.

Two men nearly died for celebrating Lincoln’s death, according to a report published in the Wisconsin Daily News on April 16, 1865, in Racine, Wisconsin.

The front page of El Nuevo Mundo on April 28, 1865, a Spanish tri-weekly newspaper circulated throughout California, Mexico, Central America and South America. In this issue, the newspaper included an illustration and an account in Spanish from a Ford’s T

The front page of the New York Herald on April 16, 1865, showed wide vertical lines, called mourning rules, between the newspaper columns. This represented grief over the loss of an important person.

This proclamation from the newly-elected mayor of Brownville, Nebraska Territory, Charles G. Dorsey, appeared in the Nebraska Advertiser on April 17, 1865.

Poet William Cullen Bryant wrote a tribute to what he believed was Lincoln’s greatest accomplishment, freeing people from enslavement.

Julia Ward Howe, author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” honored Lincoln’s legacy with this poem.

Literary critic and poet Richard Stoddard wrote this poem in response to the Lincoln assassination.

Walt Whitman wrote an elegy in the summer of 1866 in response to the Lincoln assassination.

Walt Whitman, a well-known poet then living in Washington, D.C., wrote “O Captain! My Captain!” as a tribute to Lincoln in 1865.

Phoebe Cary, a poet and suffragette from Ohio, wrote this poem in response to Lincoln’s death.

Reverend Denis Wortman gave this sermon on April 16, 1865, at the First Reformed Dutch Church of Schenectady, New York. Wortman served as Senior Pastor there from 1865 to 1870.

This sermon was preached by Reverend Dibble Reed on April 30, 1865, in The First Presbyterian Church of Camden, New Jersey.

Rabbi David Einhorn delivered this eulogy before the Keneseth Israel Congregation on April 19, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Einhorn, a German-born leader of Reform Judaism, had previously led a congregation in Baltimore, until an 1861 riot against

Reverend Pliny H. White gave this sermon on April 23, 1865, at a Congregational church in Coventry, Vermont. White studied law and worked several jobs before he pursued his licensed to preach as a pastor in Coventry from 1859 until his death in 1869.

Reverend J.G. Butler of St. Paul’s Church in Washington, D.C., delivered this sermon on Easter, April 16, 1865. Butler was a prominent Lutheran clergyman who served as Chaplain of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

Reverend Jacob Thomas gave this sermon at the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Troy, New York, on April 23, 1865.