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On Apr 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln spent his day visiting with appeals and attend a cabinet meeting. The Council of Ministers at the meeting was General Ulysses S. Grant, Lincoln said Grant was "moving at high speed towards the dark and indefinite shore." With a recurring dream of a ship, now that civil war was over, were topics of discussion during the meeting the problems of reconstruction and treatment of the former leader of the federal government.

L 'At night, Lincoln was planning a visit to Ford's Theatre to see the show Our American Cousin. Lincoln asked General Grant to his host that night, but Grant declined the invitation of the President. Instead, Lincoln and his wife Maria attend the performance of our American cousin of two other guests, Major Henry Rathbone and his fiancee, Miss Clara Harris business'.

Previously, President Lincoln shelters in memory of the Civil War, when he met a group of visitors FordTheater November 9, 1863. Lincoln then saw a play called The heart of marble, was published in this book, considered a young actor named John Wilkes Booth. "State is not acting in Our American Cousin on the night of April 14, but that is expected in Ford's Theatre during the execution of the game

That night, Lincoln, Major Henry Rathbone, Clara and Miss Harris were enjoying the game two of the characters in the game to change the following lines in the thirdAction:

Ms. Montchessington:

"I am aware, Mr. Trenchard, who are not accustomed to the mores of high society."

Asa Trenchard:

"You do not know the customs of good society, well, I think I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal? - It's old Sockdologizing Mantrap"

After the above lines to carry out the work, the audience was still laughing. John Wilkes Booth knew that this stage of the game, the result is highHe laughed, as if the mark. At that time, as A.44 caliber Derringer for President Lincoln in the neck near the fire at close range.

Stand Down largest Rathbone with a knife and jumped on stage shouting;

"Sic semper Tyrannis".

What is Latin for "thus always to tyrants." Booth broke his leg when he landed on the scene, but he escaped from Ford's Theater in an alley, and a horse. All this happened around 10:15PM on Good Friday.

President Lincoln was unconscious but still alive. It 'was all from Ford's Theater, the Peterson moved. Trapped in a back room, which was one meter and ten centimeters diagonal Lincoln on a bed that was made too short for him.

the wound of the head of President Lincoln was very, very difficult. There was not much that can happen to the President, shall, except watch and wait. President Abraham Lincoln died April 15, 1865 at about07:22.

After the death of Abraham Lincoln is reported to the Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, said;

"Now he belongs to both."

Abraham Lincoln's assassination was a tragedy. The nation is in mourning.

Some defeated in the South were happy with the news of the death of Lincoln ... It 'been a long hard war, harsh and bloody. Others saw in the South who had lost a friend on the road to recovery and reconstruction after the war. death of Lincoln was not goodNews for the people of the south. Some leaders took office after Lincoln's death was not reconcile the idea of Lincoln for the South.

Almost immediately after his assassination, he began to talk of a monument to a type of President Abraham Lincoln. The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, was dedicated in 1922. The Lincoln Memorial has 36 pillars representing the number of states that were in Union during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Carved into the marble of the SouthThe wall of the monument is Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

The Lincoln Memorial in front of the Confederation General Robert E. Lee 's former home of Arlington House on the Potomac River.

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