Today’s Questions

1. Today’s Questions • Why did JWB assassinate Abraham Lincoln? • What happened to Lincoln’s assassin & his conspirators? • How did Lincoln’s death affect the US? • What were 2 of Lincoln’s goals/desires for Reconstruction?

2. Adam Ferrara – Lincoln joke April 1865 – 2:51-5:15 April 23

3. The Effects of Lincoln’s Assassination

4. What was in Lincoln’s Pockets

6. The Lincoln Special • Officials of Richmond, Indiana, estimated its mourners at 15,000 a number greater than the city's population at 3:15 AM!

7. Reactions • Lincoln was seen as a hero and martyr for the Union, liberty, and freedom • Religious comparisons • Moses • Christ (both killed on Good Friday) • Northerners united • Many wanted revenge and harsh punishments against the rebels • This was opposite of what Lincoln wanted • Few Southerners agreed with Booth’s views and actions

8. Reactions • Who is the Captain? • What does the ship represent? • What is the “fearful trip”? • What is the prize sought for? • What event(s) in American history is this poem about? • O CAPTAIN! My Captain! our fearful trip is done; • The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;  • The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,  • While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: •     But O heart! heart! heart!          5 •       O the bleeding drops of red,  •         Where on the deck my Captain lies,  •           Fallen cold and dead.  • My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;  • My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;  • The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;  • From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; 20 •     Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!  •       But I, with mournful tread,  •         Walk the deck my Captain  lies,  • Fallen cold and dead.   • O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;  • Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills; 10 • For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;  • For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;  •     Here Captain! dear father!  •       This arm beneath your head;  •         It is some dream that on the deck,  15 •            You’ve fallen cold and dead.

9. Trial of Conspirators • Special military commission • Listen to evidence and determine punishment for each conspirator • Death by hanging • Hard Labor (Life) in Prison

10. Charges • George Atzerodt – conspiracy (in charge of killing Vice President Andrew Johnson) • Lewis Powell - conspiracy and the attempted assassination of Secretary of State William Seward

11. Charges • David Herold - conspiracy, guiding Powell to Seward's home, and assisting Booth during his 12 days on the run after the assassination • Mary Surratt - conspiracy, "keeping the nest that hatched the egg," and running errands for Booth that helped him escape

12. Charges • Ned Spangler - helping Booth escape from Ford's Theatre • Dr. Samuel Mudd - conspiracy and aiding the semi-crippled assassin during his escape

13. Charges • Sam Arnold - conspiracy to kidnap President Lincoln • Michael O'Laughlen - conspiracy to kidnap President Lincoln

14. “To be hanged by the neck until he [or she] be dead” Lewis Powell (Paine or Payne) Mary Suratt George Atzerodt David Herold

15. July 7, 1865

16. July 7, 1865

17. Hard Labor Michael O’Laughlen died of yellow fever in prison September 1867 Sam Arnold Dr. Samuel Mudd pardoned by Andrew Johnson in February 1869 Edman “Ned” Spangler

18. Mary Todd Lincoln • 3 of her 4 sons died before age 19 • Afraid of being poor and alone after President Lincoln died • Spent 4 months in mental asylum in 1875

19. Complete your circle map about Lincoln’s assassination by adding the new, important, and/or interesting information you have learned over the last two periods.