Show assassination A man was dialler dialled to take ex president ciui the darkest day of my life general Gran tonce said to a friend was the day I 1 heard of Lincol ns assassination I 1 did not know what it meanly Her ewas the rebellion putdown in the field and starting up again in the gutters we had taught is as war now we had to fight it as assassination lincoln was killed on the evening of the of april I 1 was busy sending bufe orders to stop recruiting the purchase of supplies aud to muster out the army lincoln had promised to go to the theater and wanted me to go with him while I 1 was with the president a note came from MM grant saying that she must leave washington that night she wanted to go to burlington to see her children some incident of a trifling nature had made her resolve to leave that evening I 1 was glad to haye it so as I 1 did not want to go to the theater so I 1 made my excuse to lincoln and at the proper hour we atar the train As we were driving along Penn vania avenue a horseman drove past us on a gallop and back again around our carriage looking into it mrs grant said there is tha man who eat near us at lunch today to day with some other men and tried to overhear our conversation he was so rude that we left the din ing room is now riding after us I 1 thought it was only curiosity bit I 1 learned afterwards that the horseman was booth it seems that I 1 was to have been attacked and mrs grants sudden rex solve changed the A few days after I 1 received an anonymous letter from a man say iny that ho had been detailed to kill me that he rode on my train as far as havre de grace and as my car was locked he failed to get get in he thanked god that lie had failed I 1 remember that the conductor had locked our car but how true the letter was I 1 cannot say I 1 learned of the assassination as I 1 was passing through philadelphia I 1 turned around took a special train and came on 10 washington it was the gloomiest gloo day ot my life new york commercial advertiser |