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Booth's plan
Booth and his henchmen planned, like highway robbers. -
Booth
The Confederate capital, Richardmond, fell to the Union. -
Abraham Lincoln
visited his capital prize and had the nerve to sit behind the desk that was occupied by the first and last president of the Confederate States of AMerican, Jefferson Davis. -
General Robert E. Lee
His Army of Northern VIrginia surrendered in AppomattoxnCourt House. -
parade
thousands of people with bands and banners assembled on the semicircular driveway in front of the Executive Mansion. -
Washington
celebrated with a grand illumination od=f the city. -
John Wilkes Booth
He didn't know that he would be enduring more than a week of bad news but he would be enjoying a stunning reversal of a fortune. -
Booth
he heard that the president was coming to the theater with his wife. -
Booth
He took a 44 caliber and a knife to the theater -
Fanny Seward
Fanny Seward watched over her father and listened to the sights and sounds of the celebrations in the streets. -
Lewis Powell
He was a lone figure standing in the moonlight, lost, unharmed, and wearing a coat stained with blood. -
1:10 A.M.
Staton sent a request to a chief of police in New York City, asking him to send his best dectitives to assist in the investigation of the assanations. -
Lincoln
Lincoln passed away . But his body resisted death many times. -
Washington City
Major General Dix wrote a note to Edwin M. Stanton -
3:00 P.M.
Booth was in grave danger. -
Monday
With the arrests of Sam Arnold, Michael O'Laughlen, and Edman Spangler, Monday, April 17 closed as the most successful day in the three-day-old manhunt -
Thursday
Thomas Jones witnessed the calvary riding out of town on the news that the assassins had been spotted in another country. -
Dr. Mudd
Dr. Mudd was questioned again by the calvary. -
Friday
Union patrols that were pursuing them landed the boat at the mouth of a creek -
night
After anothers night delay, John wilkes Booth and David Herold finally climed aboard the boat and rowed out into the Potomac. -
night
The soldiers took Herold witht them on a ride into a nearby town while Booth spent the night at Gareets farm