By Carl H. Peterson Copyright 2002

Lincoln During the War

0001. Lincoln with General McClellan and others at Antietam
0002. Lincoln seated with McClellan in tent
0003. Lincoln with Allan Pinkerton and General McClernand - Close View
0004. Lincoln with Pinkerton and McClernand - Side View

Assassination

0005. Rocking chair used by Lincoln at Ford's Theater
0006. Lincoln's Box at Ford Theater
0007. Lincoln's Funeral Procession

Execution of the Conspirators

0008. Empty scaffold with crowd before execution
0009. Condemned conspirators on scaffold - Mrs. Surratt, Lewis Payne, David Herold, and George Atzerodt
0010. Death warrant being read to the criminals
0011. Adjusting the ropes for hanging
0012. Hanging bodies, crowd leaving
0013. Hanging bodies, closer view
0014. Coffins and graves ready for conspirators
0015. Men responsible for securing conspirators
0016. Conspirator - Lewis Payne
0017. Conspirator - David Herold
0018. Conspirator - George Atzerodt
The boardwalk offers a pleasant,
reflective walk over the land of Lincoln's birth.

It was a land covered with old forests,
represented here by second-growth timber


Axes, scythes, hayforks and other implements
made life a little easier for the rural Kentuckians.
Simple tools also helped Nancy Hanks Lincoln
keep a simple home.
Lincoln, the product of humble rural upbringing,
is sculpted here in "The Gettysburg Lincoln" by Robert Berks.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln (drawn by Lloyd Ostendorf),
Thomas Lincoln, and Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln
AN OVERVIEW OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH'S ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN
"Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment"
THE LIFE AND PLOT OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH
LINCOLN ASSASSINATION THEORIES:
A SIMPLE CONSPIRACY OR A GRAND CONSPIRACY?
Confederate grand conspiracy theorists feel Judah Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of State, was deeply involved in the plot to kidnap/kill Abraham Lincoln. He burned all of his records before Richmond was evacuated. Benjamin escaped to England, and he was the only member of the Confederate government never to return to the United States. He practiced law in England until 1883 and died in Paris on May 6, 1884.

EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY
A Cavalryman's Account of the Chase and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
ABRAHAM LINCOLN QUOTES
On March 27, 1865, Albert Hunt made this charcoal sketch of Mr. Lincoln during his visit to General Grant's headquarters at City Point, Virginia.
This is an 1864 sketch done by David Hunter Strother. The President is seen with an office seeker who is carrying one of those "soon-to-be notorious" carpetbags.
This is another drawing by Pierre Morand. It is one of several that Morand did as he observed the President in Washington in 1864.
FRANCIS CARPENTER'S FINISHED PAINTING
Image by permission of The Chicago Historical Society
Collaborative Project
Library of Congress Manuscript Division and Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College
FREEDMEN AND SOUTHERN SOCIETY PROJECT
The first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the cabinet.
Brett (A.) & Co. Abraham Lincoln