Century Ago Today Lincoln Assassinated at Ford's Theater
Ford's Theater in Washington hosted a crowded Good Friday audience as President Lincoln and his party attended Our American Cousin with Ulysses Grant absent. John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln behind the left ear, fled on a horse, and Booth and conspirators pursued a wider plot targeting Seward and Johnson, leading to a national chase and trials.
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Lincoln
United Press International
Washington
Ulysses S. Grant
Appomattox
Grant
White House
Francis Burns
Fifteenth
H Streets
Maj. H. R. Rathbone
Clara Harris
Charles Forbes
Burns
Tenth Street
Major Rathbone
Miss Harris
Burlington
N.J
John F. Parker
Tom Taylor
New York
Laura Keene
England
Parker
Forbes
Harry Hawk
Hawk
John Wilkes Booth
Booths
Maryland
Edwin
Wilkes
South
Charles A. Seale
Seale
Charles Sabin Taft
Albert F. A. King
William Clerk
Andrew Johnson
Edwin M. Stanton
William T. Sherman
James Speed
Sen
Charles Sumner
Massachusetts
Petersen House
Booth
William H. Seward
Johnson
Lewis Paine
Seward
Lafayette Square
Paine
John Mosby
Gettysburg
Robinson
Augustus Seward
Vermont Avenue
Sewards
George Atzerodt
Atzerodt
Kirkwood House
Twelfth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
David Herold
Samuel Mudd
Bryantown
Mudd
Herold
Potomac River
Richard Garrett
Bowling Green
Dr. Mudd
John Spangler
Fort Jefferson
Stylish Aristocratic Lincoln Ties Remain In Manchester
In Manchester residents recall Robert Todd Lincoln son of the wartime president. He hosted visitors at Equinox House and mingled with townspeople, shared moments with Taft in 1912, and formed bonds with locals like G Murray Campbell. Noted neighbors and staff remember his gracious, sociable presence and gardens at Hildene while poets and residents recount Mrs. Lincoln and Isham family friendships.
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Lincoln
Robert
Sumner
Manchester
Robert Todd Lincoln
Robert Lincoln
William Howard Taft
Music Hall
Manchester Village
Taft
Hildene
G. Murray Campbell
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Pullman Co
Vermont
Loveland Munson
Munson
Campbell
Wallingford
John N. Thompson
Ormsby Hill
Edward S. Isham
Thompson
California
Henry
Frank Walker
Mr. Walker
John Thompson
Walter Hard
Margaret Hard
Walter Jr
Vermont Life Magazine
Charles Isham
Manchester remembers Lincoln as town kin in study of fate
In Manchester a sense of kinship with Lincoln persists after his assassination. The piece recalls Captain Robert Todd Lincoln at Appomattox, the 1862 Savage's Station losses of Co. E, and the town’s observance of Lincoln’s funeral procession with sermons and a lingering respect for the fallen president.
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