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Many could not believe that the news of Lincoln’s assassination were real and thought it only as rumours. Others thought that “the whole story may be a Yankee lie.” In Towne’s diary, it is mentioned that, “the black minister of Frogmore said that if they knew the President were dead they would mourn for him, but they could not think that was the truth, and they would wait and see.”
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