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...Lincoln is re-elected in 1864. Five days after Robert E. Lee's surrender, Lincoln goes to a play at Ford's Theatre...
...SCENE President and Mrs. Lincoln were seated in a box with Major Henry Rathbone and his fiance Clara Harris. General Ulysses S. Grant and his wife had been expected but begged off at the last minute...
...About 10:15 p.m., he points a derringer at the back of Lincoln's head and fires once...
DEATH OF A PRESIDENT Lincoln never regained consciousness and died in a house across from the theater at 7:22 the next morning...
Sources: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum; National Park Service; Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln (Library of America); Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman (Library of America); Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (Simon & Schuster...