Did Abraham Lincoln have a vision of his own death?

Question

Did Lincoln beleive in the after world

Answer 1

In April of 1865, shortly before he was shot, Lincoln is quoted as saying, "About ten days ago, I retired very late. I had been up waiting for important dispatches from the front. I could not have been long in bed when I fell into a slumber, for I was weary. I soon began to dream. There seemed to be a death-like stillness about me. Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. There the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible.
I went from room to room; no living person was in sight, but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along. It was light in all the rooms; every object was familiar to me; but where were all the people who were grieving as if their hearts would break? I was puzzled and alarmed. What could be the meaning of all this? Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and so shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered. There I met with a sickening surprise.
Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, some gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully.
'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers.
'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin!' Then came a loud burst of grief from the crowd, which awoke me from my dream. I slept no more that night; and though it was only a dream, I have been strangely annoyed by it ever since."

Answer 2

Abraham Lincoln Premonition

Answer 3

Yes, not only Lincoln did have premonitions of his own death, but his wife Mary Todd Lincoln did as well.

When he first became President, Lincoln told his wife that he saw two versions of his face in a mirror, one normal and one deathly pale. His wife took that to mean that he would survive his first term, but not his second.

Not too long before he died, Lincoln had a dream in which he was in the East Room - where a viewing was being held for a deceased President. When he died a short time later his viewing was held in the East Room.

Answer 4

I have a book that says Abraham Lincoln had a dream, maybe a week before he was assassinated, that showed a lot of people gathered around somewhere and he asked what happened and someone responded that the president was dead. But did he believe in the afterlife? I don't know.

Answer 5

yes he did. he saw in a dream a full image and then a pale image. he perceived that he would live through his first term and die during his second term. then the dream continued when he saw a line of people in mourning and he asked a nearby soldier what happened. the soldier replied that the President had been assassinated.

Answer 6

Originally, John Wilkes Booth had formulated a plan to kidnap Lincoln in exchange for the release of Confederate prisoners. In April he changed to a plan for assassination.[33]

Booth, a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland, heard that the President and Mrs. Lincoln, along with the Grants, would be attending Ford's Theatre. Having failed in a plot to kidnap Lincoln earlier, Booth informed his co-conspirators of his intention to kill Lincoln. Others were assigned to assassinate vice-president Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward.

Without his main bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon, to whom he related his famous dream of his own assassination, Lincoln left to attend the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater. As a lone bodyguard wandered, and Lincoln sat in his state box (Box 7) in the balcony, Booth crept up behind the President's box and waited for the funniest line of the play, hoping the laughter would cover the noise of the gunshot. On stage, a character named Lord Dundreary (played by Harry Hawk) who has just been accused of ignorance in regards to the manners of good society, replies, "Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal — you sockdologizing old man-trap..." When the laughter came Booth jumped into the box with the President and aimed a single-shot, round-slug .44 caliber Deringer at his head, firing at point-blank range. The bullet entered behind Lincoln's left ear and lodged behind his right eyeball. Major Henry Rathbone momentarily grappled with Booth but was cut by Booth's knife. Booth then leapt to the stage and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!" (Latin: "Thus always to tyrants") and escaped, despite a broken leg suffered in the leap. A twelve-day manhunt ensued, in which Booth was chased by Federal agents (under the direction of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton), until he was finally cornered in a barnhouse in Virginia and shot, dying soon after.

Answer 7

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Lincoln was really such a diverse person that he doesn't really fit any neat categories. Some see him as the man who freed the slaves, others as the one who saved the Union, some even as the one who tried to oppress the South. He was a man who was born in Kentucky, only 18 years after it became a state, moved with his family to Spencer County Indiana only 2 years after it became a state, and here his mother and elder sister died. When he was 21, he moved to Macon County Illinois, arriving 12 years after Illinois entered the Union. So he was a frontiersman in many senses of the word. As a young man, he took two flatboats down to New Orleans, where on one trip he first encountered a slave auction. After returning from his second trip, he returned to New Salem, along the Sangamon River, to work in the store of Denton Offutt, who owned the milldam that Lincoln's flatboat got hung up on on the way down. Later, he and a friend named Berry set up a store in New Salem, though this went bust. He served as Postmaster in New Salem, in the days when postage was paid by the person receiving the mail, rather than the sender, and since many people couldn't afford the postage, he had an endless stream of newspapers to read. So he was a frontier tradesman. He taught himself the law, and passed the bar without ever attending law school. He rode the circuit in Illinois, particularly in the early years. He also served as Chief Counsel for the Illinois Central Railroad. He argued a case to put a bridge across the Mississippi at Rock Island, but lost it to the steamship companies. It was finally decided in the railroad's favor on appeal after Lincoln's death. According to friend and former law partner Ward H. Lamon, Lincoln was once verbally reprimanded by a judge for charging fees far lower than other attorneys in the circuit. He was an "advocate" on the frontier. He married Mary Todd, of Lexington Kentucky at Springfield on November 4, 1843. His son Robert (after Mary's father), only child to live into the next century, almost exactly 9 months later. Their second child, Edward, lived only a few years, dying of illness. Their third child, William Wallace, named for a brother in law, not Braveheart, died of Typhus in Washington in 1862. Their youngest, Thomas, named for his paternal grandfather, was nicknamed Tad, because he was born with a large head, his father commenting that he looked like a tadpole, and the nickname stuck. Taddy died in Europe, on tour with his mother following his father's death. Mary died in her sister Elizabeth's home in Springfield, a long suffering lady to be sure; her surviving son Robert had committed her to the Batavia Institute, an asylum in my home town, after she sent him numerous messages saying that she had had visions of his being murdered; she was later released, but there was tension between them for years later. Robert named his son Abraham, and introduced the boy to Mary, who seemed pleased and commented that he favored his grandfather. He also hoped that his mother had made her peace with him after this. The Lincolns were a tragedy, of a kind only the likes of Shakespeare could make believable, but they weren't uncharacteristic of families in the mid nineteenth century. Through all of this, Lincoln is often noted for his wit. His stories were supposedly sometimes for gentlemen only, and the types Billy Herndon wouldn't preserve in print, so we don't know many of them. The few we have are of a folksy nature, like how long should a man's legs be, just long enough to reach the ground; the one quoting the dutch farmer about not changing horses in midstream and so forth. So yes, I respect him. I see his flaws, his merits and his strengths. He was slow at emancipation, but he got there. He overstepped his bounds on habeus corpus, in my opinion, but the situation was desperate, and I have no realistic perspective on how serious it was. He was just, he pardoned many sentenced to death for desertion, but not all. And finally he was strong enough to find the man to whip R.E. Lee and give him enough room to do the job, despite the "butcher's bill" which was very high.