“The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the search for John Wilkes Booth” – as written by Provost Guard John H. Mathews from inside Point Lookout Prison, Maryland

Lincolns Funeral Penn Ave cropped

Procession for Abraham Lincoln on Pennsylvania Ave. from the White House to the U.S. Capital on April 19, 1865–his body lay in state there before traveling by train to Springfield, Ill. for burial

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