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Dixie Divas: When Lincoln dies; final chapter of Charlie Tinkers diary
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(Editor’s note: This is third in a three-part series) Charlie Tinker, according to his diary, was feeling poorly on the morning of April 15, 1865. He had left the office on April 12th, gone home and to bed. A doctor visited and said he must stay in bed since he had an intermittent fever.