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What are the details of the Lincoln assassination<\/a> timeline? Were the co-conspirators successful in killing their other targets?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chasing Lincoln’s Killer<\/em> provides the details of the Lincoln assassination timeline. The timeline from the president’s arrival at Ford’s Theatre until the assassins scattered after the attacks is an important part of understanding the larger assassination plot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading to learn the Lincoln assassination timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

At Ford’s Theatre<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lincoln, his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, and their guests Major Henry Rathbone and his fianc\u00e9 Clara Harris arrived at the theater after the play had begun. However, the director stopped the play, the band played \u201cHail to the Chief,\u201d the audience cheered, and Lincoln bowed to the crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After having a drink at a saloon, Booth entered the theater lobby at 10 p.m. and climbed the stairs to the balcony, where he opened the vestibule door unimpeded. He closed and blocked it behind him, and waited outside another door to Lincoln\u2019s box. He could see through a peephole that he may have made that Lincoln was seated in a rocking chair closest to the door holding Mary\u2019s hand. Their guests were seated on Mary\u2019s other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four scenes remained in the play. Booth pulled out his pistol and knife. He waited until there was just one actor on stage, Harry Hawk, who he knew would speak a big applause line generating a reaction that would muffle his shot. <\/strong>He opened the door and entered the president\u2019s box at 10:31 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one in the box noticed as Booth stepped toward Lincoln and raised the pistol to shoulder height. When Hawk spoke the line, \u201cYou sockdologizing old mantrap,\u201d the audience burst into laughter, and Booth fired. The bullet struck Lincoln on the left side of his head below his ear, then traveled through his brain and stopped behind his right eye. Lincoln\u2019s head fell forward, and he slumped in the chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some theatergoers heard the shot and thought it was part of the play. However, the Lincolns\u2019 guest, Major Rathbone, recognized it as gunfire. As he got up and moved toward Lincoln, Booth stabbed at him with his knife, shouting \u201cFreedom!\u201d Booth then climbed over the box railing and jumped to the stage, landing awkwardly and injuring his left leg. He yelled the state motto of Virginia, in Latin, \u201cThus always to tyrants,\u201d and then \u201cThe South is avenged!\u201d He ran into the wings, slashing at anyone in front of him, while an audience member heard Booth say, \u201cI have done it.\u201d Booth reached the back door to the alley, mounted his horse, and galloped away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Attack on Seward<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As we examine the Lincoln assassination timeline, we need to see how some key events happened simultaneously. As the attack unfolded at the theater, about a mile from the White House, Secretary of State Seward<\/a> lay in bed with his daughter Fanny by his side. With David Herold waiting outside, Lewis Powell knocked on the door and told the servant who answered that he had medicine from Seward\u2019s doctor, which he needed to give directly to the patient. He pushed past the doubtful servant and started upstairs, running into Seward\u2019s son Frederick on the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They scuffled, and Powell tried to shoot him but his pistol malfunctioned. Powell beat Frederick with the gun as the servant ran for help. Fanny looked out of her father\u2019s bedroom door, inadvertently revealing his location, and Powell barged into the room. An army nurse also in the bedroom fought Powell and Powell stabbed him. Powell managed to stab Seward in the side of the face while Fanny tried to protect him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outside, Herold could hear the commotion and took off on his horse, leaving Powell to fend for himself. <\/strong>Another Seward son, Augustus, awoke and joined the fray, and the defenders wrestled Powell out of the bedroom and into the hall. Powell finally fled, finding his horse outside but not Herold. He threw his knife on the ground and rode away. While Seward was seriously injured, he managed to whisper that he was alive, and the householders sent for doctors and police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Mortally Wounded President<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Lincoln assassination timeline now takes us back to Ford\u2019s Theatre. A 23-year-old Army surgeon in the audience, Dr. Charles Leale, had rushed to the president\u2019s box after Booth\u2019s escape. He examined Lincoln, who wasn’t breathing, and found the large bullet hole in his head. He removed the blood clot at the bullet hole to relieve pressure, then worked to start the president\u2019s heart and breathing. Although Lincoln\u2019s breathing resumed, Leale pronounced his wound mortal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincoln was carried through the crowds and across the street to a boarding house bedroom where more doctors arrived and a death watch began. Other government officials were notified, and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton arrived and took charge of mobilizing troops to hunt for Booth<\/a> and for Seward\u2019s attacker.<\/strong> Stanton also sent guards to Johnson\u2019s and every cabinet member\u2019s house, believing this was a Confederate plot to bring down the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Co-Conspirators Scatter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here, as in the case of the attacks on Johnson and Seward, the Lincoln assassination timeline doesn’t go as planned. Although Booth\u2019s plan called for the co-conspirators to meet on a particular hilltop in Maryland after carrying out their assignments, Atzerodt and Powell improvised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atzerodt:<\/strong> Although he was supposed to simply knock on the vice president\u2019s unguarded Kirkwood House hotel room door and shoot or stab him when he answered, Atzerodt instead drank awhile in the hotel lobby, then got on his horse and returned to his own hotel room for the night without attempting the assassination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powell:<\/strong> After his botched attack on Seward, Powell became lost in the city without Herold as a guide. After sleeping in a tree for two nights, he remembered Mary Surratt\u2019s Washington boarding house, which he\u2019d visited with Booth, and decided to try and find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Booth and Herold:<\/strong> Booth and Herold followed the planned escape route out of the city, with Herold some distance behind. Both crossed the Navy Yard Bridge after questioning by a guard, who let each of them pass after some hesitation. They rode 13 miles toward Mary Surratt\u2019s tavern in Maryland, with Herold catching up with Booth near the meeting point. With Booth in increasing pain from his injured leg, they arrived at the tavern, collected the stashed weapons and supplies, and continued riding southeast in search of Dr. Mudd, who lived on a farm near Bryantown, Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lincoln assassination timeline helps us understand the bigger picture of the plot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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