So ubiquitous is the image of the battered stovepipe that the playwright John Drinkwater, in his popular Abraham Lincoln ... On the night Lincoln died, he dressed for the theater in a silk ...

On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, President Abraham ... also be one of Lincoln’s last defenders. On April 14, 1865, Weaver was in Ford’s Theatre in Washingt ...