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The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred President, New York: Bunce & Huntington, 1865. This is a collection of essays, accounts, sermons, newspaper reports, poems, and more, with no editor or authors named, except Richard Henry Stoddard , whose poem "Abraham Lincoln—An Horatian Ode" is included ...
The Garretts were unaware of Lincoln's assassination; Booth was introduced to them as "James W. Boyd", a Confederate soldier, they were told, who had been wounded in the Siege of Petersburg and was returning home. [144] Garrett's 11-year-old son Richard was an eyewitness to the event.
Sergeant Thomas H. "Boston" Corbett (January 29, 1832 – disappeared c. May 26, 1888) was an English-born American soldier and milliner who killed John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln on April 26, 1865.
Henry Reed Rathbone (July 1, 1837 – August 14, 1911) was a United States military officer and lawyer who was present at the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; Rathbone and his fiancé Clara Harris were sitting with Lincoln and Lincoln's wife Mary Todd Lincoln when the president was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre.
By Christian Nilsson, HuffPost Live producer Wednesday is the 150th anniversary of the death of President Abraham Lincoln, and while most Americans know the history of his assassination, many aren ...
For the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, take a road trip along John Wilkes Booth's escape route through Washington, Maryland and Virginia.
Restored version of File:Lincoln conspirators execution.jpg. Articles this image appears in Abraham Lincoln assassination, Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell (assassin), David Herold, George Atzerodt, Fort Lesley J. McNair, hanging, Capital punishment by the United States federal government. Creator Alexander Gardner (photographer)
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Most Americans know that much history. ... When Monica Beletsky learned the assassination was part of a conspiracy, and that similar attempts were ...