AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
LINCOLNS ASSASSINATION
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Question
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Owned a boarding home and hosted meetings
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Heard two men bragging about killing Lincoln and sent them to a farm, he later told police where to find the men.
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Stabbed William Seward many times but did not kill him
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Planned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson but instead got nervous and drunk and fled the scene
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Vice President of the United States
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Detailed explanation-1: -On the death of President Abraham Lincoln As a crime it was unexampled and beyond execration. It was a crime that no good man could approve from any conceivable motive.
Detailed explanation-2: -On April 22, 1865, Brevet Colonel H. L. Burnett was assigned to head the investigation into the murder of President Abraham Lincoln and the attempted murder of Secretary of State William H. Seward. Burnett orchestrated the collection of thousands of documents for the Military Commission’s trial of the conspirators.
Detailed explanation-3: -John Wilkes Booth fled after shooting U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln. During the massive manhunt he was discovered by Federal troops while hiding in the barn of a Virginia farm.
Detailed explanation-4: -On April 18, Lincoln’s body was carried to the Capitol rotunda to lay in state on a catafalque. Three days later, his remains were boarded onto a train that conveyed him to Springfield, Illinois, where he had lived before becoming president.