Here’s the first part of a look back at the death and burial of Abraham Lincoln, and the hatching of the plot.
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President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865
MONROE, La. (KNOE) - President Abraham Lincoln died from a gunshot wound to the head at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865. John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln while he and his wife were watching the ...
Abraham Lincoln led the Union through the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and was assassinated in 1865.
Here is a peek into the evening of President Abraham Lincoln’s 1865 inauguration celebration. On Nov. 8, 1864, with the Civil War in its final stages, Lincoln was elected for a second presidential ...
At 7:22 a.m., Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, dies from a bullet wound inflicted the night before by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer. The president’s ...
"A special publication of The Library of America." Introduction -- Introduction of Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union (1860) / William Cullen Bryant -- From Live of Abraham Lincoln (1860) / William Dean ...
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States (1861-1865), is remembered for his vital role as the leader in preserving the Union during the Civil War and beginning the process that ...
The president was shot while he was attending a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in D.C. During one of the funniest lines of the play, Booth entered the presidential box — and ...
Pottsville soldier carried Abraham Lincoln from Ford’s Theatre after he was shot on April 14, 1865
On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, President Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for 75,000 volunteers to serve for three months. Five volunteer companies from ...
On this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm in Virginia 12 days after he fatally shot the ...
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