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1865
A kidnap plot by John Wilkes Booth fails when Lincoln fails to arrive as expected at the Soldiers Home -
1865
General Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to General Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia -
april 14th
President Lincoln and his wife Mary go to Ford's Theater to see the play "Our American Cousin" . During the third act of the play John Wilkes Booth shoots the president in the head at approx 10:13 p.m. -
april 15th
President Abraham Lincoln dies at 7:22 in the morning. Vice President Andrew Johnson assumes the presidency -
april 26th
John Wilkes Booth is shot and killed in a tobacco barn in Virginia. -
may 4th
Abraham Lincoln is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, outside Springfield, Illinois.