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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08722 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of miscellaneous Civil War-era newspapers |
| Title | New-York Daily tribune. [Vol. 25, no. 7528 (May 23 1865)] |
| Date | 23 May 1865 |
| Author | Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) |
| Document Type | Newspapers and Magazines |
| Content Description | Contains coverage of the Lincoln conspiracy trial for Monday, May 22, 1865. Testimony and examinations of Norah Fitzpatrick, William Cleaver, J.L. M'Phail, Dr. Verdi, John Brown (alias "peanuts"), James Maddox, Lieut. Bartley, Col. R.B. Treat, Major T.T. Eckert, C.F. Hall, and William C. Clives. Also includes a front page story about the assassination of Gen. Kirby Smith, account of Jefferson Davis and family imprisoned aboard the steamer Clyde, and capture of rebel Governor Isham Harris of Tennessee. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Forces Lincoln Assassination President Assassination Military Law Prisoner Prisoner of War Confederate General or Leader |
| People | Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) Kirby Smith, Edmund (1824-1893) Harris, Isham G. (Isham Green) (1818-1897) Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | The American Civil War; The Presidency |
| Sub-collection | American Civil War Newspapers and Magazines |
| Additional Information | The New-York Daily Tribune also known as the New York Tribune was established by Horace Greeley in 1841 and was long considered one of the leading newspapers in the United States. Greeley died in 1872, the year Whitelaw Reid assumed control of the paper. His son Ogden Mills Reid merged the paper with the New York Herald to form the New York Herald Tribune, which continued to be run by Ogden M. Reid until his death in 1947. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |