“Cheering From Charleston,” Fayetteville (NC) Observer, September 14, 1863

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Cheering From Charleston
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“Cheering From Charleston,” Fayetteville (NC) Observer, September 14, 1863, p. 3: 1.
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“From Gettysburg,” Chicago (IL) Tribune, November 13, 1863

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From Gettysburg
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“From Gettysburg,” Chicago (IL) Tribune, November 13, 1863, p. 1: 2.
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Lewis Powell attempts to assassinate Secretary of State William Seward in Washington, DC

At the same time that President Lincoln was being shot, a further attempt to decapitate the federal government was made when Lewis Powell, a former Confederate soldier from Florida gained entry to William Henry Seward's and attempted to stab the Secretary of State to death.  Seward was bedridden from a carriage accident nine days before.  His son Frederick resisted Powell at his father's sickroom door but the would-be-assassin was able to stab the older Seward several times before being driven off and making his escape.  (By John Osborne) 
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William Henry Seward, Secretary of State (Goodrich, 2005)

Scholarship
Thomas Goodrich, The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005), 54-55.
William Henry Seward was one of the most powerful men in the federal government, second only to [President Abraham] Lincoln and perhaps [Secretary of War] Edwin Stanton. His three-story town home across from the White House on Lafayette Park was symbolic of his important station. Seward reportedly once boasted that if he rang a bell on his right hand, a man from Illinois would be arrested; a ring on his left, and a man in New York would be dead.
The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy
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