Doctor Who - Telos - 14 by Blood & Hope

Author:Blood & Hope [Blood & Hope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

the Doctor and he nodded and mounted his horse. As we rode off with

Moses leading the way, the Doctor said, I think to himself more than

anyone else, that this was not President Lincoln’s time to die. It was an

odd thing for him to say – but I feel he means that after a war such as

this, we will need the President’s steady hand to rebuild this nation. I can

only agree.

Extract ends

Extract from the Diensberg Chronicle

April 6th, 1865

Kenneth Smith reporting

President Lincoln walked into Richmond. To those colored thousands

who met him and cheered and sang his name, he may as well have

walked into the harbor atop the water without need for any boat. He

shook hands with men and women alike of all colors as he made for

what had been the house of Jefferson Davis. In the great throng

surrounding the President, his meager guard of ten naval officers became

detached and lost. Only his son, Tad, stayed resolutely by the President’s

side. Despite this, the President’s progress was interrupted by only one

slight scuffle, which was dealt with in a matter of moments.

Letter from Will Johnson to Claire Bartlett

Richmond, Virginia

April 5th, 1865

Second extract

We had followed Moses only a few hundred yards when we saw the

President. Indeed, it would have been impossible to have missed the

great man. In that grand stovepipe hat, he stood two heads taller than any

of those around him, perhaps the only white face in a crowd such as I

have never seen, but to a man, each of those people in the crowd was

smiling. Even those women who wept as they touched his hand did so

with smiles on their faces. To these people, who have suffered so much,

it must have felt as if a messiah were among them. It was a mood with

which I could easily have been swept along but then Moses yelled and

pointed. It took me a second to make out the cause of his concern. And

then I saw him. For a second I was so taken aback by the extraordinary

whiskers on the man’s face that I failed to see the rifle in his hand. But

only for a second. He was wearing the torn remains of a Confederate

uniform and raising his rifle to aim at the President. The musket was old

and had probably been by his side since the beginning of the war but I

had no doubt that if it were brought to bear on President Lincoln, it

would be more than capable of taking his life. I drew my revolver but

neither Moses nor I dared shoot for fear of hitting the crowd. Then we

saw the Doctor lean forward and urge his horse onward. I have never

seen the Doctor take reins or a whip to a horse nor dig in spurs – indeed

he wears none – but I have never seen a man capable of drawing such a

response from an animal. His horse surged forward and the Doctor’s

white coat tails billowed out behind him like the wings of some

avenging angel. As the Reb soldier steadied himself to fire, the Doctor

rode by, dashing the musket from his hands and splintering it into pieces

against a wall.

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