Posted by admin on Apr 7, 2014
Civil War nurse Sarah Low met Abraham Lincoln on April 20, 1864, writing in her diary that the president shook hands with everyone at a crowded White House reception. One year later, the Dover woman would see Lincoln again, this time as he lay in state in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.
“The flowers on the coffin that had been beautiful the day before were faded and it seemed forlorn that they had not been replaced by fresh ones,” she wrote on April 20, 1865. “Lincoln’s face looked very thin and shrunken, the face was dark and it seemed to me that he looked like a murdered man.”
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