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The Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln

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Title The story of Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was the 16th of the United States of America and is arguably one of the greatest American presidents in history, and also the president that kept the US together during the Civil War. This will tell you about his early life until when he dies and why John Wilkes Booth shot and killed him. Abraham went to job to job in his early life but his first job was working on a ferryboat. After that he went on to build a flatboat and ran a shipment of farm produce down the Mississippi River, then he sold the boat for timber, then became a clerk for a small town called New Salem. When the BlackHawk War broke out Abraham volunteered, his men voted him there temporary captain of their company, Abraham …show more content…

Booth was famous in the South for acting on stage. During the Civil War he ran to the north and became increasingly bitter when the audience weren’t enamoured of him as they were in Dixie. A little while before the end of the war Booth and a few friends were planning on taking Lincoln hostage and giving him to the south on March 17, but luckily Lincoln had his plans changed, so they couldn’t take him hostage, and then the south surrendered and now they really couldn’t do anything if they had lincoln, so Booth decided to just kill him. At about 10PM on April 14th Booth was drinking at a saloon and then went on over to the Ford’s Theater in Washington DC where Lincoln was watching a play going on. Lincoln's body guard that was suppose to be outside the door where Lincoln booth was was gone, he went to go get a drink because he thought the play was boring. Booth went into Lincoln's booth and right before he shot him Booth said “Sic semper tyrannis the south is avenged” which means ever thus to tyrants. He then jumped out of the booth and landed on the stage and badly hurt his leg. On April 26 the Union found him hiding out in a barn with a friend. The Union gave him the choice to surrender or have the barn burned down and him die in it form the smoke. Booth’s friend decided to surrender well Booth decided to stay in the barn well it burned down. Well it was burning he ran out of the barn and was shot and killed by a Union

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