Ford's Theatre National Historic Site Located in Washington D.C., DC TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Ford's Theatre in 1870 Ford's Theatre photo files IN BRIEF America's transfer from civil war to peace was made more difficult on April 14, 1865, when Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed, just five days after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court ...

Welcome to the Surratt House Museum Built in 1852 as a middle-class plantation home, historic Surratt House also served as a tavern and hostelry, a post office, and polling place during the crucial decade before the Civil War. During the war, it was a safehouse for the Confederate underground which flourished in Southern Maryland. It was the country home of Mary Surratt, first woman to be ...

The text of a talk given by Brigadier-General Henry Lawrence Burnett, an assistant special judge advocate for the Lincoln Assassination Trial, to the Presbyterian Church of Goshen, NY on his memories of the times and the trial.

Abraham Lincoln Papers The Martyr of liberty... (Library of Congress, Stern Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division.) On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, Our American Cousin, President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Accompanying him at Ford's Theater that night were his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named ...

This page includes a description of John Wilkes Booth's life and his plot against Abraham Lincoln.

The last moments of the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.

News of Abraham Lincoln's Death OUR GREAT LOSS Death of President Lincoln. The Songs of Victory Drowned in Sorrow. LOSING SCENES OF A NOBLE LIFE. The Great Sorrow of an Afflicted Nation. Party Differences Forgotten in Public Grief. Vice-President Johnson Inaugurated as Chief Executive. MR. SEWARD WILL RECOVER. John Wilkes Booth Believed to be the Assassin. Manifestations of the People Throughout ...

Assassination of Lincoln A History of the Great Conspiracy Trial of the Conspirators by a Military Commission And a review of the Trial of John H. Surratt By T. M. Harris Late Brigadier-General U. S. V. and Major General by Brevet A Member of the Commission General Harris's book was published around 1890. General Lew Wallace served on the same Military Commission as General Harris and his book ...

Home | News | Books | Speeches | Places | Resources | Students | Index | Search | Discussion White House Funeral Sermon for President Lincoln Washington, D.C. April 19, 1865 Dr. Phineas D. Gurley, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church which Lincoln attended while President, preached this funeral sermon in the East Room of the White House. Dr. Gurley was at Lincoln's side when he died ...

FreePress-FreeSpeech Banner | Home | 3rd Tour | Site Index | News Room | Site Search | Discuss | Guestbook | Links | Part 1: It Was Johnson The Crown in the Capitol In 1957 Ray A. Neff of Gibbsboro, New Jersey, walked into Leary's ookshop in Philadelphia and purchased a faded, second-hand book for fifty cents. Unbeknownst to Neff, inside that dusty military journal was a profound and stunning ...

This page icludes information about the autopsy of John Wilkes Booth performed by Dr. Joseph K. Barnes and Dr. Joseph J. Woodward.

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Capture of J. Wilkes Booth and David E. Herold, at Garrett's Farm, near Port Royal, Va. APRIL 26, 1865 Report of Lieut. Edward P. Doherty, Sixteenth New York Cavalry. O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLVI/1 HDQRS. DETACHMENT SIXTEENTH NEW YORK CAVALRY, Washington, D.C., April 29, 1865. Lieut. Col. J. H. TAYLOR, Asst. Adjt. Gets. and Chief of Staff, Dept. of Washington. COLONEL: I have the honor to report ...

Click Here to go Back to the Table of Contents Members.tripod.com/robhelmer/WEBTOC.htm Abraham Lincoln s face graces both the penny and the five dollar bill. From an imposing memorial, a King Kong-proportioned statue of Lincoln commands a view of Washington, DC His birthday has been combined with George Washington s to form a national holiday. His face has even been carved into the side of a ...

A companion web site to C-SPAN's author interview series Home | Archives | Book Talk | Bookstore | My Booknotes | About Looking Ahead August 18 Simon Worrall, The Poet and the Murderer 25 Michael Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East September 1 Winston Groom, A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front 8 Dennis ...

Lincoln's Assassination This may take a while, please be patient. Booth, John Wilkes; half-length, standing. 259k Corbett, Sgt. Boston, the man who claimed he shot John Wilkes Booth; three-quarter-length, seated at a table. 227k Payne, Lewis, the conspirator who attacked Secretary Seward; three-quarter-length, standing. 253k Execution of the four persons condemned as conspirators (Mary E.