Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

[Gene C]

I found the following comment in Gath's book a bit odd (on p13, 2nd paragraph)

"The population of the city this morning was not far short of one hundred thousand, and of these as many as thirty thousand walked in procession with Mr. Lincoln's ashes"

I found the comments on page 14 regarding the embalming of Mr. Lincoln morbidly interesting but also a bit unsettling.

But Gath is a talented journalist as seen in the following comment (p14);
"All that we see of Abraham Lincoln, so cunningly contemplated in his splendid coffin, is a mere shell, an effigy, a sculpture. He lies in sleep, but it is the sleep of marble. All that made his flesh vital, sentient and affectionate, is gone forever.