Research Guides: Religious Aspects of the American Civil War: Death of Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services

Frontispiece from Hanaford, Phebe Ann. Abraham Lincoln: His Life and Public Services. Boston: B. B. Russell, 1865.

New York Herald - Apr. 19, 1864 - Front Page Sidebar

Hepworth: The Criminal, the Crime, the Penalty.

Hepworth, George Hughes. The Criminal, the Crime, the Penalty. Boston: Walker, Fuller and Company, 1865.

George Hughes Hepworth

George Hughes Hepworth (Feb. 4, 1833-June 7, 1902) graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1855. He was the minister of the Church of the Unity in Boston from 1858 to 1869 and was a Chaplain in the 47^th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry (Militia) (Nov. 6, 1862-Feb. 11, 1863).

[Photo: George Hughes Hepworth, UUA MInister file]

Sermons and Discourses on the Death of Lincoln

Arranged alphabetically by author.

Adams, William. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 329 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Atwood, Edward Sumner. In Memoriam: Discourses in Commemoration of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, Delivered in the South Church, Salem, April 16th, and June 1st, 1865. Salem: Printed at the Office of the Salem Gazette, 1865.
Badger, Henry Clay. The Humble Conqueror: A Discourse Commemorative of the Life and Services of Abraham Lincoln, Preached to the Cambridgeport Parish, April 23, 1865. Boston: Printed for the Parish, 1865.
Bancroft, George. Untitled oration beginning on p. 383 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Bartol, Cyrus Augustus. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 51 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Beecher, Henry Ward. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 33 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Bellows, Henry Whitney. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 49 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Briggs, George Ware. Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, June 1, 1865, with the Proceedings of the City Council on the Death of the President. Salem, Mass.: G.W. Pease, Printer, 1865.
Brooks, Phillips. The Life and Death of Abraham Lincoln: A Sermon Preached at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, Sunday Morning, April 23, 1865. Philadelphia: H.B. Ashmead, printer, 1865.
Budington, William Ives. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 111 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Burchard, Samuel Dickinson. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 255 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Chaney, George Leonard. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 325 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Clarke, James Freeman. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 91 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Claxton, Robert Bethell. Sermons on the Death of President Lincoln: Delivered in St. Luke's Church, Rochester, N.Y., on Wednesday, April 19th, and on Sunday, April 23d, 1865. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1865.
Cudworth, Warren Handel Eulogy on the Life, Character and Public Services of the Late President Abraham Lincoln: Delivered before Council No. 33, Union League of America, at Sumner Hall, East Boston, May 8, 1865. Boston: Wright & Potter, printers,
Cudworth, Warren Handel. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 199 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Cuyler, Theodore Ledyard. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 159 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
De Normandie, James. The Lord Reigneth: A Few Words on Sunday Morning, April 16th, 1865, After the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Portsmouth, N.H., 1865.
Eells, James. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 219 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Ellis, Rufus. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 235 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Everett, Charles Carroll. Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States: Delivered before the Citizens of Bangor on the Day of the National Fast, June 1st, 1865. Bangor: Printed by S.S. Smith, 1865.
Everett, Charles Carroll. A Sermon in Commemoration of the Death of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States, Preached in the Independent Congregational Church of Bangor, on Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865. Bangor: Benj. A. Burr, 1865.
Foote, Henry Wilder. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 179 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Fox, Henry J. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 341 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Fulton, Justin Dewey. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 359 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Gray, Edwin H. Closing prayer at the service beginning on p. 28 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Gurley, D. Phineas. Sermon at the service beginning on p. 16 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Hague, William. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 129 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Hale, Edward Everett. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 267 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Hall, Charles H. Burial service beginning on p. 7 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Hammond, Charles. A Sermon on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln: Preached at Monson, at the United Service of the Congregational and Methodist Churches, on the Occasion of the National Fast, June 1, 1865. Springfield: S. Bowles, 1865.
Hepworth, George Hughes. The Criminal, the Crime, the Penalty. Boston: Walker, Fuller and Company, 1865.
Hepworth, George Hughes. Two Sermons Preached in the Church of the Unity, April 23, 1865. Boston: Printed for the Society by J. Wilson, 1865.
Hepworth, George Hughes. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 109 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Hunt, Albert Sanford. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 317 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Huntington, Frederic Dan. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 193 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Kirk, Edward Norris. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 33 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Laurie, Thomas. Three Discourses, Preached in the South Evangelical Church, West Roxbury, Mass., April 13th, 19th, and 23d, 1865. Dedham, Mass.: Printed by J. Cox, Jr, 1865.
Littlejohn, Abram Newkirk. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 145 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Lothrop, Samuel Kirkland. 2 Samuel XIX: 2. And the Victory that Day was Turned into Mourning Unto all the People. 1865.
Lowe, Charles. Death of President Lincoln: A Sermon Delivered in the Unitarian Church in Archdale Street, Charleston, S.C., Sunday, April 23, 1865. Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1865.
Lowry, Robert. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 303 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Manning, Jacob Merrill. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 59 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865
McClintock, John. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 129 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Miner, Alonzo Ames. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 279 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Neale, Rollin Heber. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 163 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Nicholson, William Rufus. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 125 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Porter, Elbert Stothoff. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 233 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Potter, William James The National Tragedy: Four Sermons Delivered before the First Congregational Society, New Bedford, on the Life and Death of Abraham Lincoln. New Bedford, Mass.: A. Taber & Brother, 1865.
Putnam, George. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 309 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Reed, James. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 295 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Robbins, Chandler. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 215 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Robinson, Charles S. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 85 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Rockwell, Joel Edson. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 273 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Rogers, Ebenezer Platt. Prayers beginning on p. 417 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Simpson, Matthew. Opening prayer at the service beginning on p. 12 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Simpson, Matthew. Oration at the Burial at Springfield beginning on p. 393 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Smith, Henry Boynton. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 359 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Spear, Samuel Thayer. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 289 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Stone, Andrew Leete. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 337 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Studley, William Sprague. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 227 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Thompson, Joseph Parrish. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 173 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Todd, John Edwards. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 75 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
Tyng, Stephen Higginson. Prayers (Apr. 25 1865) beginning on page 411 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Tyng, Stephen Higginson. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 65 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Webb, Edwin. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 145 in Sermons Preached in Boston on the Death of Abraham Lincoln. Together with the Funeral Services in the East Room of the Executive Mansion at Washington. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1865.
White, Pliny Holton. A Sermon, Occasioned by the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln ... Preached at Coventry, Vt., April 23, 1865. Brattleboro: Printed at the Vermont Record Office, 1865.
Williams, William R. Untitled sermon beginning on p. 9 in Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from the Pulpit of New York and Brooklyn. New York: Tibbals & Whiting, 1865.
Young, Edward James. The Lesson of the Hour. 1865.

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