Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-28
RICHMOND BUILDS FROM
ASHES IN FIFTY YEARS
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and its glory. Bot III" rebuilding. OF
empires and the reconstruction n, ma
lions reVuire Sicrnor spirit and a
more patient courage than that which
clothes itself IN h;th!lm"nts OF war and
goes forth 10 the sound OF trump and
drum.
Three days after tn, evacuation. on
ipril >. Federal boat drew UP III the
dock in Rockets. and a man. whose
Gaunt ngur" and lined face were
familiar TO bu, few. stepped ashore
II was Abraham Lincoln lie walked
from tn" wharf to the late mansion OF
Jefferson Davis. and II guard that was
sent 10 follow him los; him on the
way. He conferred with General
W"itzel. and swung his long logs from
the chair In which President Davis
had SO lately sat.
PRESIDENT LINCOI.N.s
VISIT TO RICHMOND
For awhile he unused upon the for
tunes of war and the strang. fate
which had At last brought him TO the
city he had so much wanted 10 see.
Then he looked over the house Per
haps he might have written something
OF thar visit or have related some
inimtable anecdote Of the few hours
he spent in the White House of tho
tonfcdcracy had not fate turned her
wheel against him. on Friday April
u. he was shot in Ford's Thcatcr, in
Washington, by John Wilkes Booth.
lie died on Sunday
The South lamcnted that murderous
deed as did the North, and that natural
eninty which Southern soldiers felt
against their Northern rivals and their
Northern rivals commando chief
changed into the sincerest pity and
sorrow that death should so suddenly
have come upon Lincoln. And in that
day the South needed Lincoln more
ihan 1t needed any other man. Had he
lived. the conditions which came after
would probably not have been pos
s!hle.
GENERAL LEE RETURNED TO
RICHMOND AFTER SURRENDER
On Saturday, April Is. General Lee,
with five members of his staff, returned
10 Richmond. crossing the river on a
pontoon bridge. lie went immediately
TO his home at 707 East Franklin
street. and there gave hearing to his
friends. il was sad return but as
he had been in war, so was the great
chieftain In peace proving to the
"oii" 'hht lie mat rulcth his Spiyit is
greater than he that takcth q city.
He turned his face to the grave prob
lens Of tho future. and as his life AS
a man had held all that was best and
dearest In the South, so his character
flnally became one of her greatest at
tributes, and brought in a later day
the South's due need Of praise and JUS
dee.
rebuilding continued. The Times.
published by c. II. Wynne reappeared
on April 81. The First National Bank
was organized on April II, with the
following directors Franklin Stearns.
II. L. Kent. r. a. Lancaster, yelling
ton Goddin, Lewis Mckenzie Charles
Palmer, Henry McWilliams, II. G.. FAINT
and w. l.. Hodge. Mr.. FAINT was made
president and l.. w. Rose cashier The
hank was opened In the custom house
on May 10. and It was made the de-
pository for United States funds.
GRANTS RROTIIER-IN-LAw
FIRST NIILITRAY GOVERNOR
General +. NJ. Dent. brother-fn-law
Of General Grant, was made military
governor Of the city. and the Richmond
Court Of Arbitration and Cancellation.
having Jurisdiction in all things ex-
cept In criminal cases and cases in