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March 17
They planned to kidnap Lincoln -
March 27
He has planned it before March 27. -
April 3
The Confederates fell to the Union -
April 9
The Confederates surrender -
April 11
Lincoln had a speech that John Wilkes Booth disagreed with -
April 14, 1865
She was remembered not for her talent as a actress, but for her stage in the president's box. The doctor was bringing him back to life and she asked if she could cradle him. -
April 14
He found out he was going to the theater. Lincoln arrived at theat. He recruited to kill the secretary of state.He was armed with a knife and a pistol a six shot revolver. The exact floor above was the vice president. He was unguarded Johnson had gone to his room at night. He had was not kill him. He was in trouble. He was a lone figure standing in that moonlight. He had a coat on with blood. He did not know where to go. He was not in Washington. He was in Elmira, which is upstate New York. -
April 15
He sent a request to the chief of police in New York City, asking him to send his best detectives to investigate all of these assassinations. This is when Lincoln died. He was in grave danger, only samuel mudd stood between him and a disaster. Mudd had the power to end the manhunt. All he had to do was tell the soldiers that John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices were hiding at his farm. He confirmed he killed him. -
April 16
They were lost. They paid Oswell Swann to take them straight at Captain Cox's place. This would be known as Black Easter because people lived through it. Lincoln murder turned into a rejoicing of the capital. Across the country ministers stayed up all night and lit candles for the president's death. They spent their time at a loyal confederate's door. He did not want to have the newspapers not in Washington from the day that Lincoln died or today. George showed up at the home of Hezekiah Metz. -
April 16
He had know idea where he was. -
April 17
He went about his business as usual. Troops did not call him a tip they still did not know. He made a vague report to her that two suspicious stranger had visited his cousins house for medical help.