Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Friday, April 28. 1865

The President’s remains are at Cleveland to-day where funeral honors will be shown to them and tomorrow at Columbus —  The murderer of President Lincoln has been discovered in a barn in Virginia and shot and killed by a Union soldier named Boston Corbett, an Englishman.  An accomplice in the crime named Herold who was with him was arrested and brought to Washington with Booth’s body —

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