Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to be killed by an assassin's bullet. A total of four presidents have been shot and killed while in office. Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the ...

When Lincoln left Illinois and headed east for his inauguration, he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad station that he confronted challenges equal only to those that had faced the nation’s ...

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On the night President Abraham Lincoln was shot, April 14, 1865, Associated Press correspondent Lawrence Gobright scrambled to report from the White House, the streets of the stricken capital, and ...

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army in the Civil War and a future president of the United States, and David G. Farragut, the Navy’s first admiral, were among the pallbearers who ...

Rare theater tickets from the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated were sold at auction for $262,500. The pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 were for ...

"A special publication of The Library of America." Contents Introduction -- Introduction of Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union (1860) / William Cullen Bryant -- From Live of Abraham Lincoln (1860) / ...

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play? Wednesday marks the sad anniversary of the April 14, 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, which the Associated Press covered in ...

DEAD is the roll of the drums, And the distant thunders die, They fade in the far-off sky; And a lovely summer comes, Like the smile of Him on high. Lulled the storm and the onset. Earth lies in a ...