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Lincoln was not inaugurated until March 4, 1861, four months after his 1860 election, which afforded the South time to prepare for war. [27] Nationalists in the North and "Unionists" in the South refused to accept the declarations of secession, and no foreign government ever recognized the Confederacy.
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3]
April 15 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (born 1809) April 26 – John Wilkes Booth , actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln (born 1838 ) May 20 – William K. Sebastian , U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1848 to 1861 (born 1812 )
The second U.S. president to die in office, Zachary Taylor, died on July 9, 1850, from acute gastroenteritis. [4] Abraham Lincoln was the third U.S. president to die in office, and was the first to be assassinated. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth on the night of April 14, 1865, and died the following morning. [5]
1865 – Robert E. Lee made commander-in-chief of all Confederate forces; March 4, 1865 – President Lincoln begins second term; Johnson becomes the 16th vice president; 1865 – Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, captured by a corps of black Union troops; 1865 – Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House; 1865 – Freedmen ...
On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger gave General Order No. 3, declaring all slaves in Texas to be free. While practically the order took some time to spread and enforce, its date of enactment was momentous, marking the legal end of slavery in the Confederacy. [28] This is now celebrated as the national holiday Juneteenth.
On December 21, 1865, the two caskets were moved to the temporary vault, halfway up the hillside, where the Lincoln Tomb was in construction at the top of the hill. The body of Lincoln's son Edward "Eddie" Baker Lincoln (three years, ten months) was already placed there on December 13, 1865.
Lincoln's personal communications, even from around the time of his To Whom it May Concern letter, indicate that he might have been willing to privately give ground on slavery. [19] That Lincoln proposed a delayed ratification plan is mentioned by the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel in June 1865—based on a report by Stephens from after the ...