Although Union General William T. Sherman and Confederate General Joseph Johnston a week earlier agreed on terms for a surrender of Jonston’s remaining army, the last large body of Confederate forces, officials in Washington D.C. rejected those terms as too lenient on the Confederacy. Subsequently, Jefferson Davis rejected Union demands for harsher conditions, and from…
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…
As thousands file by Abraham Lincoln‘s casket in Washington, the hunt for the president’s killer, John Wilkes Booth, continues with great intensity. Yet another conspirator is located and arrested today, but not Booth. The killer remains in hiding in the woods of Maryland near the Potomac River, accompanied by co-conspirator David Herold. Having long anticipated…