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Abe Lincoln
Title: Abe Lincoln
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1419 | Pages: 6.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Abe Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln’s assassination was a malevolent ending to an already bitter and spiteful event in American history, the Civil War. John Wilkes Booth and his group of co-conspirators developed plans in the late summer of 1864 to only kidnap the President and take him the Confederate capital of Richmond and hold him in return for Confederate prisoners of war. Booth’s group of conspirators: Samuel Arnold, Michael O’Laughlen, John Surratt, Lewis Paine, George Atzerodt, …showed first 75 words of 1419 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1419 total…was deadlocked and Surratt went free. Dr. Mudd and Arnold were all pardoned by President Andrew Johnson early in 1869.
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"Booth, John Wilkes." Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia. 1979 ed.
Lewis, Llloyd, and Mark E. Neely. The Assassination of Lincoln: History and Myth.
Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.
(Online) http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln46.html, 10, January 1999.
Reck, Emerson W. A. Lincoln: His Last 24 Hours. Omaha, N.B.: University of Nebraska
Press, 1994.
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