Abraham Lincoln: Transition Between Life And Death

Most bullets, while life changing, only directly impact a select few. Yet one would alter the fate of a country whose values were already being tested. Thousands shed their blood for two different visions of a better tomorrow, and just when the clouds had began to subside, bringing on a single shining ray, one more would suffer the transition between life and death. Despite this, his duties were not yet done, and there is still a wrenching hole that his works could have saved. For the parishes of American society, such as gun violence and racism, could have been prevented by the continued life of one man: Abraham Lincoln. The plan to assassinate what would become one of the most beloved presidents in American history came together in a matter of days, in a surprisingly simple scheme. John Wilkes Booth, the man who himself would pull the trigger, had a different original …show more content…
Powell, who needed Herold to guide him out of the unfamiliar Washington streets, forced his way in the Seward residence and resumed fighting. When a servant came outside and began shouting, “Herold panics. He ties Powell’s horse to a tree, mounts his own horse, and gallops down Fifteenth Street”(Lincoln’s Last Day).However, the biggest shock was the death of the president, whose guard had abandoned him to visit the saloon next door. Booth easily entered the box, and fired the shot that would change the course of american history.
The bullet “...entered behind Lincoln’s left ear & traveled diagonally across the brain, coming to a rest above his right eye”(Lincoln’s Last Day). It was soon determined by theatre going doctors that Lincoln will not survive, but that he must not die on the dirty box floor. He was carried across the street to William Petersen’s boarding house & given a room, in which he