Title: George Alfred Townsend Description: George Alfred Townsend (January 30, 1841-April 15, 1914), 24-year-old war correspondent for the New York World who telegraphed to his newspaper the most noteworthy report of the Washington, D.C. funeral for Abraham Lincoln (February 25, 1809-April 15, 1865), sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865); Townsend earlier reported on the American Civil War (1861-1865) and was later a novelist who wrote under the pen name "Gath," derived by adding an "H" to his initials; Lincoln had been assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., by American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865) on April 14, 1865, shortly after the end of the American Civil War; Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: American Civil War (1861-1865), assassinations, funerals, Abraham Lincoln's funeral, newspaper reporters, newspapers, war correspondents, presidents of the U.S., U.S. presidents. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1200 x 1046 (1.26 MPixels) (1.15) Print Size: 10.2 x 8.9 cm; 4.0 x 3.5 inches File Size: 3.62 MB (3,792,626 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530611 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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