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Confederate leader Robert E. Lee surrenders to the Union arm, with the cease of the Confederate army bring a long awaiting end the the bloodiest four years war in U.S. history.
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Confederate sympathizer and famous actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln 5 days after the surrender of the south. Lincoln was attending theater play at ford´s theater when booth slipped into his box and fired a gun, shooting him in the head. Lincoln died at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865, at 56.
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The news of the presidents death traveled quickly through the north. The north mourned for the loss of their beloved President. On the day of his funeral 10 thousand people lined the railroad route the pay their respects to their former loved president.
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The investigators get a tip that leads to the arrest of Lewis Powell, Michael O’Laughlen, Edman Spangler, Samuel Arnold and Mary Surrat, all conspirators of the Lincoln assassination.
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Lincoln had a funeral at the White house.Him and his son, who died in 1862, were interred on May 4, 1865, at Oak Ridge Cemetery near Springfield.
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Authorities put out a $100,000 reward out for anyone who knows anything about John Wilkes Booth´s whereabouts. Booth was found hiding in a barn in Virginia, while there he was being treated for an injury to his leg. Union troops found him and shoot him, he was capture and later hung for his crimes.
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Assassins stand trail for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The were sentenced to being hung.
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Mary Surrat, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt are hung at the Old Arsenal Prison in Washington, D.C
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Captured in Alexandria, Egypt. He will be tried but he has a hung jury, and survived 50 years unil 1916.
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President Andrew Johnson paroles Dr. Samuel Mudd , who was sentenced to a life term in prison.
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sentenced to six years in prison
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he dies from a long period of poor health
