William H. Seward

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…

distinguished authors who specialize in writing historical books, one would expect it to be very well written. That expectation is exceeded in this case, and at times it could be easy to forget that what was being read was a record actual event. The reader is not just given names and pictures of the people in that time. The authors breathe them to life again through their writing. Some of the lesser known details of the assassination are revealed in the story as well. Booth not only wants…

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 diligently searched for Booth, Herald and Surratt; the only known address was for Mr. John Surratt, when the police arrived at his home, his mother says that she hadn’t seen her son in nearly…

in Ford’s. Lincoln agrees, not knowing it is the last play he will ever witness. Against the wishes of the Lincolns, Grant declines their offer to see the play, unknowingly sparing his own life. Booth’s cue to commence the first show was at 10:15 p.m. This was a key moment in the play when the crowd roars with laughter from a joke, giving Booth time to escape. Prepared, Booth had both two extra guns loaded and evidence linking all of his conspirators to the murder. Booth waits behind the…

Bill O’Reilly is a conservative Fox News commentator and talk show host, along with being the author of Killing Lincoln. O’Reilly is also the host of the Fox News show, The O’Reilly Factor. His show has routinely been the highest rated cable news show since its inception in the late 1990s. Before O’Reilly wrote Killing Lincoln, he wrote bestsellers such as Culture Warrior, The No Spin Zone, The O’Reilly Factor, and Pinheads and Patriots. After the success of Killing Lincoln in 2011, O’Reilly…

find the customer (Leidner). This shows how Lincoln was honest, at a young age and he maintained it, even after becoming the President of the United States. Lincoln faced several difficulties when he arrived at Washington as President; many people were from his own cabinet and his republican party. Still, he overcame the bitterness and made stronger relationships with them. For example, William Seward, who was the Secretary of State in his Cabinet, started working in Lincoln’s office “with a…

an elaborate scheme of holding him hostage. He planned on using Lincoln as a bargaining chip to win back Confederate prisoners of war held by the North. He was connected with the Confederate Secret Service and had organized a large group of co-conspirators. When the actual assassination became a reality, Booth and his co-conspirators had a much larger plan. They didn’t just plan on kidnapping the president anymore, they also wanted to make sure there was no way he could ever return to his…

brought into the world on February 12, 1809 to Nancy and Thomas Lincoln. He was born in Hardon Count, Kentucky. Abe was born into a house with dirt floors and no running water. When Abraham was at the age of seven, his family moved from Kentucky to Indiana and when he was ten, his mother and uncle dies suddenly from milk poisoning. Abe’s father soon got remarried to Sarah Johnston. She brought three kids with her. Even after all of these life changing events, Abraham Lincoln grew up to be a…

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…

Identity of the characters in any type of literary work can set the stage for the complete background of the story. According to Michael LeMahieu “identity is a role one performs publicly for an audience rather than a private essence one contains inside” (LeMahieu 33). It allows the reader to gain a deeper understanding of the meanings behind the characters. This holds true revolving around the identity of the characters in Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks and Joe Turner’s Cone and Gone by…