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booth had visited the Bryantown tavernin southern Maryland
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there was this ugly gray sky of the morning
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Booth and his henchman planned, like highway robbers, to ambush Lincolns carriage at gunpoint on a deserted road as he rode home to the executive mansions
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the assassination was premeditated, planned for march 27, and the confederacy might be involved
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Richmond, Virginia, capital city of the confederate states of america, fell to union forces
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Confederate general Robert E. Lee and the army of northern virginia surrendered to uniongeneral grant at appomattox.
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Abraham Lincoln appeared at a second floor window of the Executive Mansion, as the white house was know then, to greet a crowd of citizens celebrating General Lee's surrender.
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A torchlight parade of a few thousands people, with bands and banners, assembled on the semicircualar driveway in front te Executive Mansions
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Lincoln's speech provoked more viloent talk.
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Washington celebrated the end of the war with a grand illumination of the city
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on good friday morning, john wilkes booth was depressed
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booth assembled enoh men to accomplish another mission
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Stanton sent a request to the cheif of police in New York CIty, asking him to send his best detectives to assist in the investigation of the assassination
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he hada no idea of Booth;s location or destination
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Thomas Jones appeared to go about his buisness as usual
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He witnessed the cavalry riding out of town on the news that the assassins had been spotted in another country
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they landed the boat at the mouth of a creek in maryland early in the morning
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Dr. Samuel A. Mudd saw soldirs, too
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the sixteenth New York Cavalry rode into Port Conway on Tuesday
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the climactic event of the manhunt