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On November 9, 1863, Abraham Lincoln watched John Wilkes Booth perform in the play Marble Heart from the same box at Ford's Theatre that he would later be assassinated (UMKC). What turned this well-traveled actor into a cold hard assassin? How did commit such a drastic deed single handily? What abled him to escape that theater and evade the authorities for such a long time? Before finding out any of those answers, John Wilkes Booth’s life has to be learned about from the beginning. Booth was…

On April 14, 1865, president Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Forde’s Theatre. John Wilkes Booth killed him during a play there. Lincoln was fatally shot in the head, and died a few hours after the shot. Abraham Lincoln was killed because of the fact that he was a trusted, powerful leader that was able to make great changes to the U.S during his time. I believe that his assassination was wrong, and if Lincoln was alive through his full term, and he still had great plans for the U.S. Booth’s…

After the civil war ended the united states had to come up with a plan for what to do next in terms of the south and what to do with the now freed slaves. Each branch of government all had different ideas for what they wanted to come out of reconstruction. President Johnson had envisioned reconstruction as a rebuilding and reintegrating the south back into the union, without punishing the south too much. They wanted reconstruction to be as smooth as possible but that didn’t turn out to be the…

Ulysses S. Grant played a major role in the northern states winning the Civil War. Grant was General of the Union Army during the Civil War, and he was a quite successful General. It was because of General Grant and his men that General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia finally surrendered at the Appomattox Court House. With the start of the Civil War in 1861 Ulysses S. Grant jumped at the opportunity to be a part of the Union Army. The first commanding post that he had was…

The Lincoln Memorial was constructed to idolize the death of Abraham Lincoln and the great achievements he did. To begin with, Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in Kentucky. Lincoln grew up as a poor boy on the frontier. Not having lots of formal education Lincoln would read books and study Shakespeare, Byron, and even Euclid's geometry. A man of hard work Lincoln worked as a store clerk, a river trader, and a “rail-splitter”. So most people consider Lincoln as having a strong work…

Six hundred and twenty thousand men died in the American Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in United States history. Brother fought brother and father fought son in the conflict that split the nation in half over slavery. One hundred fifty three years since the end of the Civil War, racism still persists throughout American society. Why, after all these years, does hate continue to pervade this great nation? Why was this disgrace not dealt with immediately after the Civil War, during…

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809. He was the second child of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks were married on June 12, 1806, in Washington County, and moved to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, following their marriage. They became the parents of three children, Sarah, Abraham, and another son, Thomas, who died in infancy. Thomas…

On July 3, 1863, Pemberton sent word to Grant that he needed to examine surrender. The next day, July 4, 1863, Union forces acknowledged the surrender of Vicksburg. More than 30,000 Confederates were paroled, as they were starving and in poor condition. Grant came to lament this, the same number of rejoined the Confederate armed force, abusing the terms of their parole. This is one motivation behind why in 1864 the Union armed force halted all detainee trades with the Confederacy. The outcomes…

The March to the Sea is still one of the most destructive and devastating battles of the Civil War yet and more battles to come. This horrible tragedy started in Atlanta not long ago on November 15, 1864. This battle led all the way to Savannah on December 21, 1864. The Union General William T. Sherman did this to prove that the Confederate government could not protect their people from an aggressor. After William T. Sherman had captured Atlanta on September 2, 1864, he decided to move his base…

As the story begins, a Confederate spy, named Harrison, brings news to Longstreet and Lee. They're totally taken by shock, since Jeb Stuart has left them in the dark. Lee's troops, mostly a division led by a general named Harry Heth, accidentally get into a fight with Union cavalry close to the town of Gettysburg. The leader of that cavalry, John Buford, decides to try to hold the Confederates off and buy time for the reinforcement that would be sent In the meantime, over the Maryland border,…