Notable events on this day in history sj-r.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sj-r.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
1865: Syracuse mourns the death of President Abraham Lincoln
Updated 4:00 PM;
Today 4:00 PM
President Lincoln’s mock funeral Hanover Square, April 19, 1865. Courtesy of the Onondaga Historical AssociationCourtesy of the Onondaga Histori
Facebook Share
By Robert Searing | Curator of history, Onondaga Historical Association
One Hundred Fifty-Six Years Ago: It is difficult to imagine, even having lived through the last year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the manic week endured by the American people beginning on April 9, 1865. That evening, newspapers in Central New York and all across the war-torn nation announced the remarkable news of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.
CBS News
Lincoln assassination: The other murder attempt CBS News
Overshadowed by the mortal attack on President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, was another assassination attempt by the same band of conspirators. Unlike John Wilkes Booth, the Secretary of State s assailant would prove much less effective.
But not for lack of trying. In his attempt to murder Secretary William Seward, Lewis Powell would inflict serious injuries on eight people, including four of Seward s children, a bodyguard, and a messenger.
Born in Alabama, Powell (also known as Lewis Payne), grew up in Georgia and Florida. In May 1861 he left home, at age 17, to become a soldier. He fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg, and was wounded and captured at Gettysburg. Escaping from a military hospital, Powell joined up with Mosby s Rangers.
How Did Booth Perform At Ford s Theater
How Did Booth Perform At Ford s Theater
378 Words2 Pages
In late 1860, Booth had been started in the expert Confederate Knights of the Golden Circle in Baltimore.[3]
In March 1864, Ulysses S. Gift, the directing general of all the Union s armed forces, chose to suspend the trading of detainees of-war.[4] As cruel as it may have been on the detainees of both sides, Grant understood the trade was returning so as to draw out the war troopers to the dwarfed and labor starved South. John Wilkes Booth, a Southerner and candid Confederate sympathizer, considered an arrangement to capture President Lincoln and convey him to the Confederate Army, to be held prisoner until the North consented to resume trading prisoners.[5]:130â134 Booth enrolled Samuel Arnold, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Michael O Laughlen, Lewis Powell (otherwise called Lewis Paine ), and John Surratt to help him. Surratt s mom, Mary Surratt, left her bar in Surrattsville
William Brown Cooper (1811–1900), Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain
The presidency of Andrew Johnson arrived as the result of a tragedy that shook the nation. Johnson who was born on this day 210 years ago took office after Abraham Lincoln was shot by assassin John Wilkes Booth in 1865. But that was far from the only notable milestone in Johnson’s term. In addition to buying Alaska, he became the first American president to face the consequences of impeachment. Keep reading for more on Johnson’s hardscrabble life and tenure as U.S. president.
1. Andrew Johnson never went to school.
Born in December 1808 in Raleigh, North Carolina to two working-class parents, Johnson enjoyed few privileges while growing up. His childhood home was a log cabin; following the death of his father in 1812, he worked instead of attending school and apprenticed as a tailor. Though Johnson taught himself the fundamentals of reading, he didn’t receive a formal education until marrying Eliza McCa