<p>A portion of the diary reads "April 14 Washington DC: About a quarter of eleven o'clock pm the startling intelligence arrived here of the assassination of the Pres.  First a telegram was sent in then as one after another of the Navy officers in they reported the same widely differing in versions that he was shot was confirmed.  Some said the assassin immediately afterward shot himself.  Others said he was arrested, another report that the assassin was J. Wilkes Booth the dramatist and that he had escaped.  The attempted assassination of the Sewards also came in about the same time.  All hands were aroused and charged with preparation for duty in an emergency.  All were excited and expressing vengeance on the head of perpetrators."
</p><p>From the Solomon W. Hagerty Collection (COLL/5050) at the Marine Corps Archives &amp; Special Collections
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