“Glory!” cried a black woman. “Glory glory!” Accompanied by Crook, Penrose, and the naval guard, Lincoln took Tad by the hand and set out for downtown Richmond a couple of miles away. By now black people were flocking around him, yelling his name and reaching for his hand. “God bless you,” said one woman, and he smiled at her and nodded at the others. The city was under martial law and patrolled by a number of black Union troops, so the white inhabitants stayed in their homes, watching from their windows as Lincoln and a column of cheering Negroes passed in the dusty streets. “Every window was
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"Glory!"
