Abraham Lincoln: A Commemoration – 15 April 2015
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Length 5 h 16 min
Chapters 18
April 14-15th, 2015, is the 150th year anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. This is a collection of pieces to mark that occasion. Whitman’s poems, written shortly after the death, express his intense grief. Here are prose pieces that Whitman composed in the years following. Included too are three other eulogies regarded by Lincoln scholars as among the best, as well as a narrative from one of the doctors who attended the dying president and two speeches in the British Parliament. And finally three of the President’s finest compositions. ( summary by david wales)
Chapters
1
O Captain! My Captain! (poem) by Walt Whitman Read by David Wales 2:16
2
When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd (poem) by Walt Whitman Read by David Wales 16:42
3
Lincoln's Last Hours, 1909 address to the Military Order Of The Loyal Legion Of The United States (essay) by Charles A Leale, M.D. Read by David Wales 45:25
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Abraham Lincoln - The Oration (eulogy) by Ralph Waldo Emerson Read by David Wales 11:28
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Oration Delivered On The Occasion Of The Unveiling Of The Freemen's Monument In Memory Of Abraham Lincoln, In Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C. April 14th, 1876 (essay) by Frederick Douglass Read by David Wales 32:58
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Respect For The Memory Of Abraham Lincoln, Resolution Adopted At A Meeting Of Senators And Representatives, April 17, 1865 (essay) by Charles Sumner Read by David Wales 4:03
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Promises Of The Declaration Of Independence And Abraham Lincoln, Eulogy On Abraham Lincoln, Before The Municipal Authorities Of The City Of Boston, June 1, 1865 (eulogy) by Charles Sumner, Part 1 Read by David Wales 59:29
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Promises Of The Declaration Of Independence And Abraham Lincoln, Eulogy On Abraham Lincoln, Before The Municipal Authorities Of The City Of Boston, June 1, 1865 (eulogy) by Charles Sumner, Part 2 Read by David Wales 52:45
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Oration In Union Square, April 25, 1865, At The Funeral Obsequies Of Abraham Lincoln In The City Of New York (eulogy) by George Bancroft Read by David Wales 20:03
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Ode For The Funeral Of Abraham Lincoln (poem) by William Cullen Bryant Read by David Wales 1:13
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Death Of Abraham Lincoln, Lecture Delivered In New York, April 14, 1879 - In Philadelphia, 1880 - In Boston, 1881 (essay) Walt Whitman Read by David Wales 31:45
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A Lincoln Reminiscence (fragment) by Walt Whitman Read by David Wales 1:45
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Abraham Lincoln (essay) by Walt Whitman Read by David Wales 9:15
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Speech To The Parliament of Great Britain, 1865, by The Right Honorable Sir George Grey Read by David Wales 10:24
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Speech To The Parliament of Great Britain, 1865, by The Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli Read by David Wales 3:46
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The Emancipation Proclamation, Washington, D.C., January 1, 1863, by Abraham Lincoln Read by David Wales 5:15
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Gettysburg Address, Given November 19,1863, On The Battlefield Near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Abraham Lincoln Read by David Wales 2:28
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The Second Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C., March 4th, 1865, by Abraham Lincoln Read by David Wales 5:25
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