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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08430.11 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of miscellaneous Civil War-era newspapers |
| Title | New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 25, no. 7503 (April 24, 1865)] |
| Date | 24 April 1865 |
| Author | Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) |
| Document Type | Newspapers and Magazines |
| Content Description | Includes coverage of President Lincoln's funeral pageant from Harrisburg to Philadelphia and Jersey City to New York including an official program for the funeral train's stop in New York (page 8). Reports the escape of Jefferson Davis across the Mississippi River. Evening edition of the Tribune is included in this issue. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Forces President Lincoln Assassination Assassination Death Confederate General or Leader |
| People | Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889) Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | The American Civil War; The Presidency; Government & Politics |
| 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 |