After the shot, Maj. Henry Rathbone ... perhaps I should say," wrote Lincoln during the 1860 presidential campaign. "When I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, ...

Abraham Lincoln’s coffin from the White House to the Capitol Rotunda on April 19, 1865. Though less well known ... s funeral in a 1963 column written after the assassination of Pres.

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 ...

“Abraham Lincoln ... 13th Amendment on January 31, 1865, and his assassination on April 15, 1865, minus the two weeks Lincoln went to Richmond immediately after the besieged city fell ...

On April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater the previous evening; Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the 17th president hours later. And just like ...

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

What Hiser discovered was an 1865 American presentation flag that she now believes was draped over the coffin of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln ... Flag,” after its original owner ...

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) William Edgar Marshall 1865 Engraving ... Advertisement Article continues below this ad Four years later and just days after the actor shot the president, Lincoln's ...

41-calibre bullet with which John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14, 1865, was the most ... the 4 million slaves freed after the Civil War.

The National Portrait Gallery unveiled a rare portrait of President Abraham Lincoln on ... painting in Germany shortly after Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865. He soon sold it to an American ...

A rare reward poster seeking the capture of the men responsible for President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination has sold at auction for $166,375. The poster, printed on April 20, 1865, advertises ...