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"Fondly do we hope..." viewing from the stands was John Wilks Booth.
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The North was celebrating the fall of Richmond. They waved flags, shotguns, had a parade, and sang "Dixie."
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Grant at Appomattox.
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From the Executive, Mansion Lincoln asks the band to play "Dixie," to celebrate the war was over.
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A torchlight parade of a few thousand people, with bands and banners, came together on the semicircular driveway in front of the Executive Mansion.
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Washington was celebrating with a grand illumination of the city. Buildings and private homes glowed from candles, torches, gaslights, and fireworks.
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Booth recruits David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Lewis Powell to simultaneously murder the President, Vice President and the Secretary of State.
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They had the plan to kill the secretary by invading the house, locating the secretary of state's bedroom, and kill the defenseless victim with pistol fore and, if necessary and a knife.
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It was Good Friday Morning and he could not last another day of Union victory celebration.