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  1. The Assassination of President James A. Garfield
    date July 2, 1881map Washington City, District of Columbiatags President, assassination, James A. Garfield

    At 9:30am, the morning of July 2nd, 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot at Baltimore and Potomac Depot, a train station in Washington, D.C. (Salt Lake Daily Harold, 1881). In the ladies room of the train car, two shots were fired at President Garfield, with one bullet penetrating his right arm and the other piercing his abdomen just above the right hip, near his kidney (Salt Lake Daily Harold,...

  2. The Graphic Scene after President Abraham Lincoln was shot
    date April 14, 1865map Washington City, District of Columbiatags john wilkes booth, Abraham Lincoln, assassination

    During the third act of Our American Cousin, and while there was a temporary pause for one of the actors to enter, the sharp, ominous sound of a pistol resonated throughout the theatre. The graphic scene after the President had been shot was seen by nearby witnesses. The shot attracted attention but no suspicion arose until a man jumped to the front balcony and “rushed to the front of the President’s...

  3. Lincoln's Funeral Train: The Ride from Chicago to Springfield
    date May 2, 1865 to May 3, 1865map COOK, Illinoistags assassination, Presidents

    On the evening of Tuesday, May 2, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s casket was brought to a depot of the Chicago and Alton Railroad on Canal Street.  A German choral group of about three hundred sang solemn music as Lincoln’s casket was moved onto the train.  The train used to transport the president’s body consisted of one baggage car, several ordinary coaches, and a catafalque car.  The...

  4. Loss for the North and Happiness for the South
    date April 18, 1865map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Death, assassination, mourning, Lincoln Assassination

    He was the man that attempted to end slavery; he was the President who lived through the Civil War; and even though Andrew Jackson was the first President to have an assassination attempt on him, it was John Wilkes Booth who first succeeded in assassinating a President - Abraham Lincoln. The reactions varied in the North, also known as the Union and in the South, also referred to as the Confederacy....

  5. Whitman mourns for the fallen star of the Union
    date 1885map COLUMBIA, New Yorktags Politics, Health/Death, assassination, Murder

    Walt Whitman, one of the major American writers of the Civil War, wrote When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd after the assassination of the very charismatic leader of the Union during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln. This poem mourned the death of the powerful, western fallen star which was now hidden by blackness, leaving only desperation and bitterness behind. The poem followed the coffin throughout...