Just a few days into his second term in office, Lincoln's life comes to an abrupt end. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln and his wife are attending a play at Ford's Theater when actor John Wilkes Booth slips into the presidential box and shoots the president. Lincoln is carried to a house across the street where he dies early the next morning. Many Northern generals fear reprisals and caution their troops that President Lincoln would have wanted a peaceful ending. The loss of the president is yet another chapter in the carnage that was the Civil War--three quarters of a million killed, many more severely maimed; others psychologically distraught because of the war.

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Lincoln's assassination, Ford's Theater, John Wilkes Booth, fear of reprisals, carnage of Civil War, psychological devastation, Civil War and Reconstruction, The

American History, American Studies, U. S. Civil War and Reconstruction, Unfinished Nation, The

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