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Booth and his henchmen planned, like highway robbers.
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The Confederate capital, Richardmond, fell to the Union.
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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.
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His Army of Northern VIrginia surrendered in AppomattoxnCourt House.
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thousands of people with bands and banners assembled on the semicircular driveway in front of the Executive Mansion.
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celebrated with a grand illumination od=f the city.
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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.
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he heard that the president was coming to the theater with his wife.
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He took a 44 caliber and a knife to the theater
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Fanny Seward watched over her father and listened to the sights and sounds of the celebrations in the streets.
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He was a lone figure standing in the moonlight, lost, unharmed, and wearing a coat stained with blood.
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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.
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Lincoln passed away . But his body resisted death many times.
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Major General Dix wrote a note to Edwin M. Stanton
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Booth was in grave danger.
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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
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Thomas Jones witnessed the calvary riding out of town on the news that the assassins had been spotted in another country.
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Dr. Mudd was questioned again by the calvary.
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Union patrols that were pursuing them landed the boat at the mouth of a creek
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After anothers night delay, John wilkes Booth and David Herold finally climed aboard the boat and rowed out into the Potomac.
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The soldiers took Herold witht them on a ride into a nearby town while Booth spent the night at Gareets farm