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On March 4th, President Abraham Lincoln delivers his second inaugural address to a crowd of 50,000 in front of the newly completed iron dome of the U.S. Capitol. Naionally known stage actor John Wilkes Booth and several other Confederate sympathizers are among the crowd.
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Booth plots to kidnap Lincoln and hold him ransom for Confederate Army prisoners.
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The war ended in Spring, 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant
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John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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Invesigators receive a ip that leads to the arrest of Lewis Powell, Seward’s atacker. The same day, police also arrest Michael O’Laughlen, Edman Spengler, Samuel Arnold and Mary Surrat.
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A funeral service is held for Lincoln at the White House. Thousands of Americans line the streets to watch the procession.
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Five days ater Lincoln’s death, authoriies sill have not found Booth. Edwin Stanton ofers a $100,000 reward for the fugiives sill at large. In northwest Maryland, police arrest George Atzerodt.
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Booth and Herold inally get to Virginia. Three Confederate soldiers help them cross the Rappahannock River, and the fugiives ind shelter in a barn owned by Richard Garret.
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Soldiers surround the Garret barn in the early morning hours. Herold surrenders, but Booth refuses and troops light the barn on ire. Booth is shot in the neck, and he dies at sunrise
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Eight defendants stand trial for President Lincoln's murder. Four will be found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. The remaining four will serve prison sentences at remote Fort Jeferson, in the Dry Tortugas of of Florida, a Union prison during the Civil War.
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Execution day. Mary Surrat, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt are hanged at the Old Arsenal Prison in Washington, D.C.
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A ninth conspirator, fugiive John Surrat, is captured in Alexandria, Egypt. He will be tried but acquited with a hung jury, and survive another 50 years unil 1916.
