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she rejoiced in Lincoln's death and honored,
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at least in her diary,
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John Wilkes Booth for, quote,
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"ridding the world of a tyrant.
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We are glad he is not alive to rejoice
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in our humiliation and insult us with his jokes."
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There are thousands of those expressions in Southern letters and diaries.
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That spring and summer
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an estimated 8 to 10,000 ex-Confederates,
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many of them former officers, would flee the country.
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They ended up going to Brazil, England,
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other parts of Europe,