April 22, 1865
President Lincoln's Philadelphia funeral is held at Independence Hall, where he spoke four years earlier enroute to Washington.
April 24, 1865
President Lincoln's New York City funeral is held at City Hall, where an unauthorized photo was taken of his coffin.
April 26, 1865
President Lincoln's fleeing assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is shot to death in Virginia by a Union cavalryman.
Today in Lincoln's Life
Lincoln's Words
"I appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not
with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you,
is the question, "Shall the Union and shall the liberties of this country be
preserved to the latest generation?"
--Speech to Gov. Morton in Indianapolis, February 11, 1861