Assassination of Abraham Lincoln - Chapter 8

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION</p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 8 - NO HOPE</font></p> </font> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica"><font color="000000" size="3">The President, meanwhile, was carried <a target="_blank" href="http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35leqgvnbQhCmyGjWO0/pul7Di3+22DIqVk6ijMmXXtV0GCQ1BFb5ogeIgFe+KwOIN37AWedJskSY/BgL/EPpyut9+j6Ofh0NnqeoCxU7VXe34h0vKN996XbEqhdS6evkrgNUX5snQIky97Q=="><b>across</b></a> the street to Petersen’s <a href="http://www.chicagohs.org/LINCPHOTOESSAY/le28.html" target="_blank"><b>Boarding House</b></a>. He was diagonally placed on a bed which was too small for his 6'4" frame. His wound was <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/rbc/rbpe/rbpe23/rbpe235/2350220a/001dq.gif" target="_blank"><b>mortal</b></a>.</p> <p>Shocked, his closest advisors <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alrb/stbdsd/00500200/001.jpg" target="_blank"><b>gathered</b></a> round him. <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/8/12/08-1173a.gif" target="_blank"><b>Mary Lincoln</b></a> was hysterical and, for the most part, not with the President as he <a href="http://www.chicagohs.org/wetwithblood/images/return/Petersen/036%20chappel%20death%20of%20lincoln.jpg" target="_blank"><b>lay dying</b></a>.</p> <p>At 7:22 a.m. the next morning, President Abraham Lincoln <a href="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0813122171.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" target="_blank"><b>died</b></a> of his wound. Colonel <a href="http://www.civilwarpages.com/George%20H.%20Gordon.gif" target="_blank"><b>George V. Rutherford</b></a> placed silver <a href="http://www.chicagohs.org/LINCPHOTOESSAY/le11.html" target="_blank"><b>half-dollars</b></a> on both of the President’s eyes immediately after his death. Lincoln had never regained consciousness. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/tlc0070.jpg" target="_blank"><b>In his pockets</b></a> were reading <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc003975.jpg" target="_blank"><b>glasses</b></a> and other personal items.</p> <p>America, just ending the disastrous Civil War, now faced a "<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/alrb/stbdsd/00800300/001.gif" target="_blank"><b>national calamity</b></a>" with the <a href="http://lookinside-images.amazon.com/Qffs+v35leqa+t5MYsXS+Hubm4bea9LlZouZSltNYpHm6BA7KYndyhk8sdwzqgmqPxCjpOGOoO0=" target="_blank"><b>death</b></a> of her President. Booth’s plan, however, was not just to kill Mr. Lincoln. At the precise moment that the actor was in the theater, one of his co-conspirators was attempting to murder Secretary of State <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/6/14/06-1360a.gif" target="_blank"><b>William Seward</b></a>.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="abraham_lincoln_ch7.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="abraham_lincoln_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="abraham_lincoln_ch9.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body>