Elizabeth c bunce biography of abraham lincoln

  • On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin.
  • Added to the stir of those who had not slept through the night were sounds unusual in Washing ton the clatter of cavalry, the tramp of soldiers.
  • With the cordial consent of the author the information so labori- ously gathered by him has been largely drawn upon for the en- richment of these pages.

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    Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    1865 murder in Washington, D.C., US

    Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    John Wilkes Booth assassinating Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre. Drawing from glass-slide depiction c. 1865–75.

    LocationFord's Theatre, Washington, D.C., U.S.
    DateApril 14, 1865; 159 years ago (1865-04-14)
    10:15 pm
    Target

    Attack type

    • Political assassination
    • shooting
    • stabbing
    Weapons
    Deaths
    • Abraham Lincoln (died April 15, 1865, at 7:22 am)
    • John Wilkes Booth (perpetrator, killed on April 26, 1865)
    Injured
    PerpetratorsJohn Wilkes Booth and co-conspirators
    MotiveRevenge for the (then-recently) defeated Confederate States

    On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot bygd John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play,[2] Lincoln died of his wounds the follo

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    #MyrtleMondays: True Detectives—Real-Life Female Sleuths of the Victorian Era

    In How to Get Away with Myrtle, Myrtle is surprised and overjoyed to meet a professional female investigator, fellow railway passenger Mrs. Bloom. We’ve discussed the literary history of fictional female detectives here, but what about their real-life counterparts? Were there any?

    Contrary to what you may have heard on recent television programs from otherwise eminently respectable sources (coughMasterpieceTheatercough), there in fact were professional female private detectives working in the Victorian era in England and the United States. Quite a lot of them, too!

    Portrait of Kate Warne, the first female detective employed by the Alan Pinkerton National Detective Agency, 1866. Chicago History Museum

    In England, private investigation became a booming enterprise in the middle of the 19th century, thanks in large part to 1857’s Matrimonial Causes Act. Prior to this, obtaining