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April 1865
side but for a while was too much overcome with his feelings to perform the religious services required of him.  He went to Mrs. Lincoln and found her in an almost frantic condition.  The President died about 7 1/2 o'clock.  Dr. Gurley returned to his bedside a few moments before his decease  He made his way through the sorrowing & silent spectators & found him slowly drawing his breath at long intervals lying as before perfectly motionless.  A faint hardly perceptable motion in his throat and all was over.  So still was the room that the ticking of the Presidents watch was distinctly heard.  After a solemn & impressive prayer Dr. Gurley went to break the sad intelligence to Mrs. Lincoln who was in the parlor below.  She cried out.  Oh why did you not tell me he was dying?  Robert Lincoln showed great self possession & calmness and did all in his power to comfort his sorrow
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April 1865
stricken mother.  Dr. Gurley went with her to the White House.  Some of her expressions are exceedingly painful.  To day the remains of the good kind man are deposited in the East Room and from an early hour the streets have been thronged with people going to take their last view of him.  Sally & Anne Kennedy asked me to go with them but I thought I would rather remember him as I saw him last at the Capitol at the inaugeration.  Carry and I are going out again soon we feel too restless to remain at home.  Father writes that the feeling of resentment against the Southerners in New York is bitter in the extreme.  One man for an expression indicating [want?] of sympathy in the general sorrow was thrown over the railing of a ferry boat & instantly crushed by the wheels.  We expect Father tonight.  He heard the news shortly after his arrival in New York on Friday night.