USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -At Ford’s Theatre Booth made his way to the private box in which Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, were watching the play with their guests, Clara Harris and her fiancé, Union officer Maj.

Detailed explanation-2: -Accompanying him at Ford’s Theatre that night were his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone’s fiancée, Clara Harris.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Surratt, in full Mary Elizabeth Surratt, née Jenkins, (born May/June 1823, near Waterloo, Maryland, U.S.-died July 7, 1865, Washington, D.C.), American boardinghouse operator, who, with three others, was convicted of conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mary Surratt is executed by the U.S. government for her role as a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Surratt, who owned a tavern in Surrattsville (now Clinton), Maryland, had to convert her row house in Washington, D.C., into a boardinghouse as a result of financial difficulties.

Detailed explanation-5: -Her husband’s assassination in 1865 shattered Mary Todd Lincoln. The next 17 years held nothing but sorrow. With her son “Tad” she traveled abroad in search of health, tortured by distorted ideas of her financial situation.