Events During The Civil War

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During the civil war many events took place, some small and some big enough to change history greatly.. What if we changed an event in history? What will be affected? Who will be affected? For our assignment given will be analyzing the events that surrounded the Civil War, before, during, and after. Picking five events, we will be writing an alternate event and basically just changing history a whole different direction.
On the day of April 14th president abraham lincoln sat at the ford’s theater in washington D.C. watching “Our American cousin” Lincoln sat in a private box above the stage with his wife Mary, a young army officer named Henry Rathbone and Rathbone’s fiancé, Clara Harris, and the daughter of New York Senator Ira Harris. At 10:15, Booth slithered into the box and fired his .44-caliber single-shot derringer into the back of Lincoln’s head. After he stabbed Rathbone, who immediately ran up on him, in the shoulder, Booth jumped onto the stage and shouted, “Sic semper tyrannis!” …show more content…

Then booth would have to play it off and sign autographs, which would ultimately lead to the president living another day before the assassination happened. This is just one idea, there could have been a million ways the president could have been saved that night, like maybe if the soldier knew how to draw his weapon and shoot we could have had many more accomplishments in history by the great Abraham