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A leader is born.
Abraham Lincoln is born -
Prologue
threatened to spoil the great day. Photographer William M. Smith was to take a historic photograph of the presidential inauguration in front of the recently completed Capitol dome. -
The last photo of Licoln
Warren Watham snaped the last photo of Abraham Lincoln on the Balcony at the White House. -
Falling to Union forces
Richmond, Virginia, capitol city of the Confederate States of America, fell to Union forces -
America's leader dies
Abraham Licoln dies -
Time of deah
Presidents time of death was 22 minutes after AM 7:00. -
Killers schoolmate arrested
Arnold, a thirty-one-yeear-old Confederate army vetern and former schoolmate of Booth's, was arrested based on a tip. -
Paing a call to the fugitives
Jones paid his third call on the fugitives. -
solemn day in Washinton
Abraham Licolns funeral. -
Assassins in another country
Thomas Jones witnessed the calvary riding out of town on the news that the assassins had been spotted in another country -
getting information
Booth and Herold gathered thier weapons and blankets and headed on foot to the nearby house of a friend of Herold's, where they were fed, and given information. -
Wilks & Herold escaping.
John Wilks Booth and David Herold finally climed aboard the boat and rowed out into the Potomac tword Virginia. -
Chasing Lincolns killer events.
Late in the afternoon, Luther Baker spotted William Rollins, the man who had offered to ferry Booth, Herold, jett, Ruggles, and Brainbridge to Port Royal -
Hanging deaths
The condemned are prepared for execution. -
prisoners paraded
the prisoners were paraded onto the scaffold. -
RIP Confederacy
The Confederacy was dead