Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part IV, Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865; the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late president of the United States of America, and the attempted assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, on the evening of the 14th of April, 1865; expressions of condolence and sympathy inspired by these events

116th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers

Camp 116th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers,
1st Division, 2d Army Corps, April 17, 1865.

At a meeting of the commissioned officers of the 116th regiment Pennsylvania volunteers the following preamble and resolutions were proposed and Unanimously adopted:

Whereas our beloved commander-in-chief and President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, came to his death on the 15th of April, 1865, from wounds received at the hands of a cowardly assassin: Therefore,

Resolved, That in the death of our Chief Magistrate our country has lost its truest friend, liberty, justice, and virtue their warmest advocate, and the oppressed of all nations an indulgent father.

Resolved, That the officers of this regiment, in common with their fellow-countrymen, deplore, with inexpressible sorrow and anguish, this country’s greatest calamity; and that while we bow in submission to the decree of an all-wise Providence, we pray that peace and unity may reign throughout the land. Then will the object be obtained for which our illustrious President has died.

Resolved, That we will ever hold in grateful remembrance his illustrious character as a patriotic statesman and a sincere Christian.

Resolved, That we sincerely sympathize with the honorable William H. Seward, our worthy Secretary of State, in his sufferings and affliction, brought on by the cowardly hand of a would-be assassin.

• ST. CLAIR A. MULHOLLAND,
  Col. 116th Pa. Vols., com’dg Brigad.
• JOHN R. DRELTNER,
  Captain com’dg 116th Pa. Vols.
• LOUIS J. SACRISTE,
  Captain Co. D, 116th Pa. Vols.
• FRANK A. McGUIGAN,
  Captain Co. G, 116th Pa. Vols.
• ROBERT J. ALSTIN,
  Captain Co. H, 116th Pa. Vols.
• WILLIAM J. BURK,
  Captain Co. C, 116th Pa. Vols.
• GEORGE HALPIN,
  1st Lieut. Co. A, 116th Pa. Vols.
• SAMUEL G. VANDERHYDEN,
  1st Lieut. Co. G, 116th Pa. Vols.
• THOMAS A. GRAY,
  1st Lieut. Co. C, 116th Pa. Vols.
• GEORGE LEBER,
  1st Lieut. Co. F, 116th Pa. Vols.
• JACOB FOREST,
  1st Lieut. Co. H, 116th Pa. Vols.
• ROBERT J. TAGGERT,
  1st Lieut. Co. J, 116th Pa. Vols.
• ZELOCK Z. SPRINGER,
  2d Lieut. Co. K, 116th Pa. Vols.
• THOMAS MCKNIGHT,
  2d Lieut. Co. B, 116th Pa. Vols.
• THOS. S. EWING,
  1st Lieut. and Adj’t 116th Pa. Vols.