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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08428.04 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of newspapers related to Lincoln assassination |
| Title | New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 25, no. 7496 (April 15, 1865)] |
| Date | 15 April 1865 |
| Author | Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) |
| Document Type | Newspapers and Magazines |
| Content Description | Reports (on page four) that President Lincoln has been shot and Secretary Seward injured. Also includes two anonymously published letters under the headline "letters from rebels." The paper is uncut along the top edge. |
| Subjects | Civil War President Government and Civics Lincoln Assassination Death Assassination Union Forces Injury or Wound Lincoln's Cabinet Confederate States of America |
| People | Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) 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 |