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William DeHaven Attends Lincoln’s First Inaugral
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on December 3, 2018
On the occasion of the inauguration of William Howard Taft in Washington, D.C., 4 March 1909, Civil War veteran William H. DeHaven, reflected on the first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln on 4 March 1861, in a letter to the Harrisburg Telegraph:
Tells of Lincoln’s First inauguration
Inauguration day this morning brought back recollections to William H. DeHaven, of 252 Liberty Street, of another inauguration day which he and a companion witnessed forty-eight years ago. Mr. DeHaven, then too young to vote but filled with patriotism, journey with his companion to Washington to see the first inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. When the second inauguration took place Mr. DeHaven was down in Tennessee helping Sherman and Thomas clear out the rebels from the Confederate State, in a simple letter to The Telegraph to-day 48 years ago and saw Lincoln inaugurated in ’61, and there was not much of a crowd.
“Sixty days after that we were both there with guns in Harry McCormick‘s company, the Lochiel Grays.
WILLIAM H. DeHAVEN, 252 Liberty Street
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Clipping from Newspapers.com.
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