Sumer reading project

  • Civil war ends

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    John Wilkes Booth meets with his henchmen to create a plan to assassinate President Lincoln, Vice President Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward at 8p.m.
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    10:13 p.m. John Wilkes Booth shoots President Lincoln with a .44 caliber one-shot pistol
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    Lincoln, Mary, Clara Harris, and Major Rathbone arrived at Ford's Theatre in a carriage at 8:30p.m.
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    Powell snuck into the Seward house with a quick thought plan. He attacked the entire family to make his way to William Seward. Seward's daughter helped save her fathers life. Powell sliced Seward's face but failed to assassinate him.