Extra Credit Questions

[Linda Anderson]

Is there anyplace online where a person could find some issues of the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, Lincoln's German newspaper?

I'd like to find 1865 issues of the Illinois Staats Zeitung as well. The July 17, 1865 issue has an interview with George Vocke who was one of Seward's nurses. It would be great if we could find the "the written communications formerly published by us concerning the attempted assassination of Mr. SEWARD."

The New York Times published the article from the Illinois Staats Zeitung on July 20, 1865.

"From the Illinois Staats Zeitung, July 17.

Mr. GEORGE VOCKE, the soldier whom the Medical Director detailed to attend Mr. SEWARD as nurse, after the latter's accident by a fall, has favored us with interesting verbal information, in addition to the written communications formerly published by us, concerning the attempted assassination of Mr. SEWARD He speaks with the warmest enthusiasm of the sublimity of character which the venerable statesman evinced during that terrible period, in which GEORGE VOCKE spent many days and nights at his bedside."

The Daily National Republican has an abridged version of Vocke's interview dated August 7, 1865.