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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
United States President
Abraham Lincoln
was shot on
Good Friday
, April 14, 1865, while attending the play
Our American Cousin
at
Ford's Theatre
as the
American Civil War
was drawing to a close. The assassination occurred five days after the commander of the
Confederate
Army of Northern Virginia
,
General
Robert E. Lee
, surrendered to
Lieutenant General
Ulysses S. Grant
and the
Union
Army of the Potomac
.
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