Ashley Wilkes

President Lincoln had been shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth; then Booth proceeded to flee the scene of the crime. Then, not long after the fatal shooting of the president, news followed that Secretary of State, William H. Seward, had been stabbed. The hunt was now on for the conspirators, the police…

day whether or not Mary was involved in the act and whether or not she should have been executed. Mary definitely was! Mary should have been executed by the U.S. Federal Government (which she was) even though she didn’t shoot Lincoln,but helped John Wilkes Booth do it. First, Mary lied a ton to people and the media. Second, Surratt’s family had a bad record on themselves for things they did in the past. Mary, when questioned, lied to media and people about her role in Lincoln’s…

Confederate general Thomas Jackson(Stonewall Jackson) Is shot by friendly fire In Chancellorville Virginia. General Thomas Stonewall Jackson got caught in crossfire.He was very heavily wounded by the devastating blow to him from friendly fire.He sadly dies 8 days later from complications by the wound and pneumonia with his only surviving daughter out of 3 and his wife. He was buried several days later in Lexington, Virginia. He was shot twice in the left arm, and once in the right hand. His left…

John Wilkes Booth was a noted actor and Confederate sympathizer. He had planned initially to kidnap President Lincoln, hoping to exchange him for Confederate prisoners. Plans were made among a small group of conspirators to carry out the kidnapping in March 1865, on a day when Lincoln was scheduled to attend a function at a Washington hospital. At the last moment, the president’s plans were changed and Booth’s plot was neutralized. On April 11, two days after Lee`s surrender, Lincoln spoke to a…

Abraham Lincoln’s ghost is amongst one of the most famous apparitions experienced in The White House. After Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, many American’s mourn in the president’s death. Around this time Lincoln’s ghost began to appear to the public. “Chief of a Nation of Ghosts: Images of Abraham Lincoln's Spirit in the Immediate Post-Civil War Period” by Kimberly Kutz provides the idea that a president’s ghost is long lasting, which may be a reason as to why the president’s spirit is still…

Unjust Farewell July 7, 1865, Mary E. Surratt ascended the stairs to the gallows, only months before had she been implicated in the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. But now, she was going to bid farewell to the cruel world, and greet her fate. She may have only known about the kidnapping plot, but hanging her was unjust. Mary Surratt had troubles that originated before the assassination. In 1862, her husband, John Surratt passed. Later…

of 1865. He was attending a play, sitting in a Presidential balcony with his wife to the right. John Wilkes Booth had unknowingly crept into the room and fatally shot Lincoln in the back of the head. He jumped off of the balcony and escaped the theater before…

Manhunt is a more reliable book than Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln for many reasons. Most importantly, Killing Lincoln lacks historical information and references. Killing Lincoln doesn’t have a lot of historical information because according to O’Reilly, “books by historians are boring.” In Manhunt, Swanson litters the book with historical facts and information throughout the whole book. Swanson also adds that he used direct trial transcripts and cross referenced using direct newspapers,…

In the years before 1865, the Civil War, led by President Abraham Lincoln, raged on. Finally, the Confederacy surrendered to the Union. An angry Confederate, John Wilkes Booth, decided to kill the president. After he shot Lincoln in Ford’s Theater, he received the help of a few Confederate supporters, one being Dr. Samuel Mudd. Mudd was guilty of knowingly assisting Booth after the actor assassinated Lincoln in 1865. Possibly the largest reason for Mudd’s sentence was that he knew that he…

A man sneaks into a theater hours before its opening and quietly carves a hole in the wall. He returns hours later as a well known public figure to observe the art. What happens next will forever alter the course of American history. How John Wilkes Booth pulled off the most compelling and famous assassinations in history is successfully written about in “Killing Lincoln” by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. In “Killing Lincoln,” the truth about the President’s assassination come to light. The…