AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
LINCOLNS ASSASSINATION
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Detailed explanation-1: -President Lincoln dies at 7:22 a.m. At his bedside, Secretary of War Edwin M.
Detailed explanation-2: -On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln’s death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.
Detailed explanation-3: -The euphoria of Union victory came to a sudden halt on the night of April 14, 1865, when President Lincoln was shot while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre. As the president lay dying in a house across the street from the theater, Senator Charles Sumner appeared at his bedside.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lincoln’s Death and Autopsy The first lady lay on a bed in an adjoining room with her eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, at her side, overwhelmed with shock and grief. Finally, Lincoln was pronounced dead at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865, at the age of 56.