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Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 just five days after he surrendered to Grant at the Appomattox Court House. He died the next morning at 7.22am.
He was killed in Ford's Theatre in Washington when he went to see a British comedy, Our American Cousin. His assassin was John Wilkes Booth a 26 year old actor an a South sympathizer. He crept up behind Lincoln an shot the president in the back of the head with a pistol. Booth did not like Abraham an after the Union shot Booth because he refused to surrender he said "Tell my mother I died for my country". |