President Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth, while attending a play at Ford's Theater. He was the first U.S. President to be assassinated.
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Abraham Lincoln was U.S. President for 1503 days.
Abraham Lincoln was President when Lee surrendered his army at Appomattox Courthouse . Purists may tell you that some fighting went on afterward and the war really ended after Andrew Johnson took office. Nearly two weeks after the assassination of Lincoln, General Johnston surrendered his army to the Union commander WT Sherman, famous for making war on helpless civilians. Although Lee's surrender to Grant essentially ended most hostilities, the last battle was Palmito Ranch on May 12th and 13th. Ironically, the South won the battle.
Reports from Grant and Sherman that the enemy position was increasingly hopeless. The surrender at Appomattox had taken place a few days before Lincoln's assassination.
The assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln took place on Good Friday,[1] April 14, 1865, as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. The assassination occurred five days after the commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee, and his battered Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to GeneralUlysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated,[2] though an unsuccessful attempt had been made on Andrew Jacksonthirty years before in 1835.[3]
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