Today Lincoln’s funeral train departs D.C. en route to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois. The slow moving procession is scheduled to traverse seven states and 1,700 miles over the course of thirteen days. Accompanying Lincoln’s body is that of his son, Willie, who passed away three years earlier at the age of eleven. He will…
The hunt for Lincoln‘s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and his accomplices continues, and with a vengeance. Over 1,000 Union soldiers are at work trying to identity and apprehend the perpetrators. The Northern public is angry, clamoring for the deaths of Lincoln’s killer and those associated with him. Aware that he is being hunted down but…
At 7:22 a.m. comes the pronouncement: President Abraham Lincoln is dead, the victim of an assassin’s bullet the evening previous. The body of Lincoln, the champion of liberty for all and first American president to be assassinated, is moved to the White House. Still at large and now in hiding, the killer, John Wilkes Booth,…