Fighting for Lincoln's Soul

From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Good Friday fell on April 14 in 1865. At 10:13 that evening Abraham Lincoln was shot by the Confederate partisan John Wilkes Booth. He died nine hours later, at 7:22 on Saturday morning.

It took almost no time at all for pious and patriotic people to transform Lincoln into the American Christ. Easter Sunday became the occasion for sermons on this theme. "Heaven rejoices this Easter morning in the resurrection of our lost leader . . . ," said Reverend Henry W. Bellows in New York, "dying on the anniversary of our Lord's great sacrifice, a mighty sacrifice himself for the sins of a whole ...

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