Two children stand next to a man with donation canisters on tag day for an unidentified charity.Tag day originated in the early twentieth century with that idea that tags should be given to individuals who contributed donations to a charitable fund.
T. V. Moore, a popular Presbyterian minister in Richmond, Virginia, writes to fellow minister Phineas D. Gurley, expressing the shock, sorrow, and consternation in Richmond on the news of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.