Booth's Assassination

The beginning of the book primarily focuses on the Civil War. This includes many battles and plans for victory on behalf of the Union and the Confederacy. One of the major issues of the Civil War was the presence of slavery in the southern states. The North was opposed to slavery and other practices in the South. The war lasted for four years under the leadership of President Lincoln and the president of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis. While the leaders made the major decisions and plans, the generals in charge of action on the battlefield were Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee.
The Civil war was one of the most gruesome and brutal wars in American history. Both the northern and the southern armies were comprised of zealots willing to die

However, Booth was also a Confederate sympathizer and had developed a hatred of President Lincoln and the Union. Booth therefor decided to take part in a conspiracy that included kidnapping President Lincoln and holding him until the Confederacy was restored. As Booth's obsession grew, so did his hatred against Lincoln. Booth then decided that kidnapping the president was not enough; President Lincoln would have to be assassinated. President Lincoln was not the only target however. Booth concocted a plan to assassinate several high profile individuals including Andrew Johnson, William H. Seward, and Ulysses S. Grant. On April 14, 1865 only the assassination of Lincoln would be

He then stood and shouted, "Sic semper tyrannis", which is Latin for “thus always to tyrants". It is a shortened version of the phrase "Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis", which means "thus always I bring death to tyrants"). Booth then managed to escape from the theater amid chaos with the help of David Edgar Herold, after the shooting, Herold accompanied Booth to the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who set Booth’s injured leg during the early morning hours of April 15. Sometime during that same day, Dr. Mudd must have learned of the assassination, however he did not report Booth’s visit to the authorities for another 24 hours. This along with various changes of story under interrogation appeared to link him to the crime, and on April 26, he was arrested. A military commission found him guilty of aiding and conspiring in a murder, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment, escaping the death penalty by a single vote. Although he was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson and released from prison in 1869 he never had his conviction overturned and his medical and personal reputation was forever tarnished. This lead to the creation of the phrase "your name is