American Civil War · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1865)
On the American Civil War map as “Ford’s Theatre”
14 Apr 1865 — Five days after Appomattox, on Good Friday, John Wilkes Booth shoots the President during the play. Lincoln dies the next morning — “Now he belongs to the ages.” Victory and grief arrive in the same week.
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- Appomattox and the end of the war (chapter 11 of American Civil War)
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- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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