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{{American Civil War4

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| president      =[[Abraham Lincoln]]

!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy  no-repeat scroll top left;"|The Civil War

| president2    =[[Jefferson Davis]]

| vicepresident  =[[Andrew Johnson]]

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| vicepresident2 =[[Alexander Stephens]]

|Begun

| secstate      =[[William Seward]]

|April 12, 1861

| secstate2      =Judah P. Benjamin

|-

| secwar        =[[Edwin M. Stanton]]

|Ended

| secwar2        =[[John C. Breckinridge]]

|April 9, 1865

| secnavy        =Gideon Welles

|-

| secnavy2      =Stephan R. Mallory

|Casualties

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The '''Assassination of Abraham Lincoln''' took place on [[Good Friday]], April 14, 1865, just as the [[American Civil War]] was coming to a close.  [[United States of America|United States]] President [[Abraham Lincoln]] was at a play in [[Ford's Theatre|Ford's Theater]], Washington D.C., when he was shot by actor [[John Wilkes Booth]].

The '''Assassination of Abraham Lincoln''' took place on [[Good Friday]], April 14, 1865, just as the [[American Civil War]] was coming to a close.  [[United States of America|United States]] President [[Abraham Lincoln]] was at a play in [[Ford's Theatre|Ford's Theater]], Washington D.C., when he was shot by actor [[John Wilkes Booth]].

==Prelude==

==Prelude==

[[Image:Lincoln1865.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Abraham Lincoln on February 5, 1865]]

[[Image:Lincoln1865.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Abraham Lincoln on February 5, 1865]]

Abraham Lincoln was the subject of death threats almost from the day he was elected [[President of the United States of America|president]] in November of 1860.  This made his trip to [[Washington]] and his 1861 inauguration all the more harrowing, at least to his bodyguards; at one point he switched [[train]]s in [[Baltimore]] and arrived at the Capitol in disguise.  In the summer of 1862 an unknown assailant managed to fire a bullet at him, putting a hole in his stovepipe hat as he was riding in a carriage for the Old Soldiers Home just 3 miles north of Washington (TL 26, pg. 10).

Abraham Lincoln was the subject of death threats almost from the day he was elected [[President of the United States of America|president]] in November of 1860.  This made his trip to [[Washington]] and his 1861 inauguration all the more harrowing, at least to his bodyguards; at one point he switched [[train]]s in [[Baltimore]] and arrived at the Capitol in disguise.  In the summer of 1862 an unknown assailant managed to fire a bullet at him, putting a hole in his stovepipe hat as he was riding in a carriage for the Old Soldiers Home just 3 miles north of Washington (TL 26, pg. 10).