The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln

Before this, Julia and Ulysses S. Grant were invited, but they turned down the invitation. So, Clara and Henry accepted a last-minute invitation to see the play with the Lincoln’s. When John Wilkes Booth shot the president, Clara’s fiance’, Henry was the first line of defense after John Wilkes Booth attacked. Henry jumped to attack Booth, but Booth used his knife to slash Henry’s left arm open from elbow to shoulder. Henry Rathbone was also hurt, but he tried another attempt to stop Booth, but ignored. John Wilkes Booth jumped off the box and made an easy escape out of the back of the theatre. Then, Henry collapsed to the ground, weak from all the blood-loss, and Clara and Mary Todd Lincoln began to scream. In the theatre, the audience was alerted by the noise John Wilkes Booth was making while escaping. Clara was quite covered in Henry Rathbone’s blood, while she was trying to stop the blood with her handkerchief. Mary Todd Lincoln was broken-hearted and she accidentally mistook Henry’s blood for Abraham Lincoln’s. The screaming from the box spread throughout the theatre and the doctors in the house were located and rushed to the president. President Lincoln was moved to a house across the street from the theatre. Abraham Lincoln then died the next day at 7:22 am on April 15, 1865, he was surrounded by loved ones and well-known citizens, including Clara.

Booth was now in the box of the theatre. On April 14, 1865, just after 10 p.m., Booth pulled a .44-calibre derringer and shot President Lincoln in the back of the head. “He grappled briefly with Union officer Maj. Henry Rathbone (who, along with his fiancée, was in the box as the Lincoln’s guest), swung himself over the balustrade, and leaped off it, reportedly shouting, “Sic semper tyrannis!” (the motto of the state of Virginia, meaning “Thus always to tyrants!”) or “The South is avenged!” or both” (Encyclopedia Britannica 2017). Booth next jumped off the stage, breaking his leg in the process, but managed to make it to his getaway horse before anyone in the shocked crowd could stop him (Biography April 28, 2017). The attempt to kill Seward did not succeed, but Lincoln died shortly after seven o’clock the following morning. (Encyclopedia Britannica 2017).

“Four score and seven years ago...” Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president and had his life taken after the North’s victory over the South; he lives on through these famous words of the Gettysburg Address. Abraham Lincoln was an important leader in the Civil War who helped free the slaves; his legacy lives on today. Although he was assassinated his words and actions are imprinted in our memory still today. This assassination was a major event in the history of the United States, not only with the loss of a great president, but with the changes and implications that came with it.

Booth and his co-conspirators also planned to simultaneously assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William H. Seward, hoping to throw the Union into disarray and save the Confederacy (History.com Staff). Booth had heard of Lincoln's plan to attend the play Our American Cousin on April 14, 1865 at the Ford's Theater, and planned to assassinate the President there (History.com Staff). At the play, Booth, whose appearance there wasn't uncommon being a famous actor, snuck into the President's private box and shot him in the head with a .44-caliber derringer (History.com Staff). Booth then jumped from the box to the stage, shouting the Virginia state motto, Sic semper tyrannis!--thus always to tyrants (History.com Staff). For a minute, the crowd only thought Booth's outburst was part of the play, until the distraught First Lady Mary Lincoln alerted the crowd to the horror unfolding in the President's box (History.com Staff). Doctors rushed to the box and carried him to a boardinghouse across the street, where the surgeon general announced that the President wouldn't survive the night (History.com Staff). Although the assassination attempts on the Vice President and Secretary of State failed, the President was not so lucky. President Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 AM on the morning of April 15 (History.com

He was also a Confederate sympathizer, vehement in his denunciation of Lincoln, and was strongly opposed to the abolition of slavery in the United States. Booth and a group of co-conspirators originally plotted to kidnap Lincoln but later planned to kill him, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William H. Seward in a bid to help the Confederacy 's cause. Although Robert E. Lee 's Army of Northern Virginia had surrendered four days earlier, Booth believed the American Civil War was not yet finished because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston 's army was still fighting the Union Army. Of the conspirators, only Booth was completely successful in carrying out his part of the plot. Booth shot Lincoln once in the back of the head, and the President died the next morning. Seward was severely wounded but recovered. Vice-President Johnson was never attacked at all. Following the assassination, Booth fled on horseback to southern Maryland, eventually making his way to a farm in rural northern Virginia 12 days later, where he was located. Booth 's companion gave himself up, but Booth refused and was shot by Boston Corbett, a Union soldier, after the barn in which he was hiding was set ablaze. Eight other conspirators or suspects were tried and convicted, and four were

John Wilkes Booth, he went from a well-loved actor to a hated assassin. Booth was a well-known man because of his acting, and later on the assassination of Lincoln during the play, Our American Cousin. Booth was a famous Booth had assassinated Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president, with two weapons, but many reasons. Why he assassinated Lincoln, there are many factors, some might still be unknown.

Have you ever had a frenemie? Well, the Union and the Confederates were. They were still a country, but they were fighting like pit bulls in a dog fight, however, they would usually not react in this manner, but under the circumstances, they were going for each other’s throats. Abraham Lincoln, the leader of the Union, the leader of the confederacy, Jefferson Davis, and their generals, were some tremendously significant people of the Civil War.

John Wilkes Booth became a professional actor at the age of seventeen (Reilly, 2012). During the Civil War, he worked as a spy and smuggled medicine to the Confederates Reilly, 2012). Then, when Richmond fell, Booth was crushed by the collapse of the rebellion and returned to Washington. Booth believed that Abraham Lincoln would be not be re-elected for his second term and became angry when he was. Soon after, Booth attended Lincoln’s second inaugural speech. After the speech Booth uttered the words “What an excellent chance I had, if I wished, to kill the President on Inauguration day!” (Swanson, 2006, p. 6). Shortly after the war, Lincoln gave a speech outlining his plans for peace and reconstruction for the country. Upon hearing Lincoln’s words, Booth muttered “Now, by God I’ll put him through…this is the last speech he will ever make” (34f. Assassination of the President, [n.d.], Web). TRANSITION?

Was it fair?Or was it not.The assassination of Abraham Lincoln had people divided between his justice or injustice.Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America.When the elections were announced at the time, many southerners did not like him becoming president.He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth ,on April 15,1865.The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was unjust because he was a good leader and abolish slavery;however confederate states disagree with his beliefs.

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