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In the wake of Lincoln's assassination, Helen DuBarry writes her mother about witnessing Lincoln's funeral procession in Washington, D.C.

Helen DuBarry writes to her mother, providing a detailed account of the assassination of President Lincoln, which Helen witnessed as a member of the audience at Ford's Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865.

R. E. Brown writes to his sister from Camp Curtain, Pennsylvania, relating news of Lincoln's assassination. Written on April 15, 1865, Brown had just received the news of President Lincoln's death. Brown also relates the widespread but inaccurate…

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.

Emory writes to an unnamed doctor, asking for a letter of recommendation to Secretary of State William H. Seward for a consular position. In his letter, Emory discusses the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the public mood in Washington, D.C., as…

Captain of Company G, 21st Regiment Veterans Reserve Corps, Edward P. Hudson telegrams Captain James Evans, a provost marshal, to arrest, on orders of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, Junius Brutus Booth, the brother of Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes…

On verso: "Hitler's bombed Mt. home above Berchtesgaden, Ger. 14 Apr. 46."

On verso: "A silhouette of me in the large window of Hitler's home above Bechtesgaden, Ger. Picture taken from inside the badly bomb-damaged home. 14 Apr. 46."

On verso: "Bamberg, Ger. Spring 1946. Evening in the barracks. Larry, Shorty, Mouldy."

On verso: "Bamberg, Ger. Spring 1946. Evening in the barracks. Jay, Pat, McBissel."

On verso: "Modern farming. Germany. Aug. 45."

On verso: "Me drinking beer out of a big mug in Unna, Ger. May 45."

On verso: "Unloading SS Prisoners of Mauthausen Con. Camp for trial at Dachau, Ger. April 46."

On verso: "Crematorium at Dachau Con. Camp. April '46." Sign in photograph reads "This area is being retained as a shrine to the 238,000 individuals who were cremated here. Please dont destroy."

On verso: "Don Kemper & Larry in Crematorium at Dachau Con. Camp. April '46."

On verso: "Entrance to Dachau Concentration Camp - Ger. April 46."

A large sign stands outside the American Red Cross Doughnut Dugout.On verso: "Near Nurnberg, Ger. 1 April 46."

A soldier stands outside the entrance to an American Red Cross coffee shop called "Java Junction."On verso: "Near Sttutgart, Ger. 2 April 46. A Red Cross Dugout & fuel point on the autobahn."

On verso: "Angel of Peace statue in Munich, Ger. March 1946."

Several soldiers sit on the ground while taking a break during their travels.On verso: "On the road to Bad Tolz, Ger. 1 April 46. 10 minute break."

Two Nazi soldier graves stand next to a few trees.On verso: "Two Kraut graves near the mess hall - Bamberg, Ger. Mar. 46."

On verso: "Brewery, near the Caserne. Bamberg, Ger. Mar. 46."

An exterior view shows the former Schutzstaffel (SS) barracks at Bamberg.On verso: "Where I work SS Casserne at Bamberg, Ger. Oct. 45."

Several people ice skate on the frozen Regnitz River in Bamberg, Germany.On verso: "Krauts ice skating on the River. Bamberg, Ger. Jan. 46."

Two men sit on a fence on the bank of the Regnitz River in Bamberg, Germany.On verso: "Pat & Mouldy. Bamberg, Ger. Spring 1946."