Lincoln Timeline

Lincoln Delivers His Second Inaugural Address

Mar 4, 1865

Lincoln delivers his second inaugural speech in the new capital of the U.S. A crowd of 50,000 gathers to hear him talk, among them; John Wilkes Booth.

Booth plots to kidnap Lincoln

Mar 4, 1865

A plot devised by John Wilkes Booth to capture Lincoln as prisoner and hold him for ransom and the freedom of Confederate prisoners.