Mourning Lincoln
“African Americans welcomed the end of the war, but some also stood at the ready. If the U.S. government favored the rights of Confederates over the rights of his people, asserted a soldier in the Third U.S. Colored Troops, stationed near Jacksonville, “We will fight it out on this line until to all be distributed an equal share.” Other mourners expressed sorrow that President Lincoln would never witness the fruits of his victory. “It looks as though peace was near us,” wrote a white Union soldi...er in Florida ten days after Lincoln died, “and what a happy people we should be if we only had our beloved President to help inaugurate its reign.” Still others found relief and good cheer even while mourning. On the southern home front, even in the face of white violence, northern teachers and missionaries working among the freedpeople detected “renewed hope and energy” at the “prospect of Peace.” In camp, white soldiers especially rejoiced. With the “smoke of Battle” gone, one man soothed himself with thoughts of the war’s end, “so long dreamed of.”MoreLess
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