A Timeline for the murder of Abraham Lincoln
Created by alyssalwagner on Mar 3, 2011
Last updated: 03/03/11 at 08:48 PM
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President Andrew Johnson releases John Wilkes Booth's body to his brother, Edwin, for burial.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/booth.htm
4 of the 8 Conspirators put on trial were sentenced to a hanging death for their parts in Lincoln's murder.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/lincolnconspiracy.html
The Search for Lincoln's assasin.
John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, shoots President Lincoln in the Presidential Box at Ford's Theatre.
http://www.history.com/topics/abraham-lincoln-assassination
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.
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