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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.
This is one scene of Chapter 10 — Appomattox in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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