secretary, John G. Nicolay, his assistant sec- retary, John Hay, the three members of his Cabinet who accompanied him, Messrs. (Secretary of State) Seward, (Secretary of the Interior) Usher and (Postmaster Gener- al) Blair, several foreign officials and oth- ers.” The “others” included newspaper corre- spondents and an honor guard that was to be part of the ceremony at the cemetery. Union Adjutant General James B. Fry re-
called: “I was designated by the Secretary of War as a sort of special escort to accompany the President from Washington to Gettys- burg upon the occasion of the first anniver- sary of the battle at that place. At the ap- pointed time I found the President’s carriage at the door to take him to the station; but he was not ready. When he appeared it was rather late, and I remarked that he had no time to lose in going to the train.” At this, Lincoln exhibited the famous story-telling skill that delighted his friends and con- founded his opponents: “Well,” General Fry reports him replying, “I feel about that as the convict in one of our Illinois towns felt when he was going to the gallows. As he passed along the road in the custody of the sheriff, the people, eager to see the execu- tion, kept crowding and pushing past him. At last he called out, ‘Boys! You needn’t be in such a hurry to get ahead, for there won’t be any fun till I get there.’” A heavy rain was falling as Lincoln ar- rived at the station and boarded his train. “As the train pulled out,” The Hartford Courant reporter Hugh Mulligan noted in a 1963 article celebrating the 100th Anniver- sary of the address, “a little girl passed up
some flowers to the President. He leaned out the window to kiss her, saying, ‘You are a lit- tle rosebud yourself.’” Also on the train, assistant secretary Hay recorded, “were . . . (French minister) Merci- er & Admiral Reynaud: (Italian minister) Bertinatti & Capt. Isola & Lt. Martinez & Cora: Mrs. Wise: Wayne McVeagh: McDougal of Canada and one or two others. We had a pleasant sort of a trip. At Baltimore (Gener- al) Schenck’s staff joined us.” A note on the website titled “The Lincoln Institute Pres- ents Abraham Lincoln’s Classroom” adds that the president’s African-American valet, William Johnson, was also on board, and that he, like Lincoln, came down with a form of smallpox on the trip. Lincoln, while ill on the return trip, recovered. Johnson, however, did not, passing within a month of the trip. This special train traveled through Mary- land to Baltimore, where a team of horses transferred it to the Northern Central Rail- way, where a baggage car, converted for the occasion into a dining car, was added to the consist. The Northern Central moved the train north to Hanover Junction in Pennsyl- vania, where it was placed in the care of the Gettysburg Railroad (one of various names historians have applied to this railroad) for the remainder of the trip. It totaled 80 miles, and produced another vignette of Lincoln at work. A crowd had gathered at Hanover Junction and cheered for Lincoln to make an appearance. Reluctant to do so, he nonethe- less stepped before the gathering and said, “Well, you have seen me, and according to general experience you have seen less than you expected to see.” One can easily envision
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