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[David Lockmiller]

An immediately prior incident of the same nature:

Relieving tension slightly was the arrival of five unarmed companies of Pennsylvania militiamen on April 18. Accompanied by Cameron and Seward, Lincoln visited them at the Capitol to extend hearty thanks for their promptitude. One soldier recalled that when they entered, "[p]rofound silence for a moment resulted, broken by the hand clapping and cheers of the tired volunteers." The militiaman was "impressed by the kindliness of his [Lincoln's] face and awkward hanging of his arms and legs, his apparent bashfulness in the presence of these first soldiers of the Republic, and with it all a grave, rather mournful bearing in his attitude." After observing the men, some of whom had been wounded while passing through Baltimore, the president said: "I did not come here to make a speech. The time for speech-making has gone by, and the time for action is at hand. I have come here to give the Washington Artillerists from the State of Pennsylvania a warm welcome to the city of Washington and shake every officer and soldier by the hand, providing you will give me the privilege." As he grasped their hands, they felt awestruck. (Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Vol. TWO, pages 140-141.)

The next day, on April 19, [1861], the anniversary of the 1775 battle of Lexington where Massachusetts men were the first to be killed in the Revolutionary War, members of the Sixth Massachusetts regiment were the first to die in the Civil War when a mob attacked them as they passed through Baltimore. . . . Lincoln shook hands with every member of the regiment and warmly greeted its commander.