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On April 18, Lincoln’s body was carried to the Capitol rotunda to lay in state on a catafalque. Three days later, his remains were boarded onto a train that conveyed him to Springfield, Illinois, where he had lived before becoming president.

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News of the president’s death traveled quickly, and by the end of the day flags across the country flew at half-mast, businesses were closed and people who had recently rejoiced at the end of the Civil War now reeled from Lincoln’s shocking assassination.

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During the autopsy, Mary Lincoln sent the surgeons a note requesting that they clip a lock of Lincoln’s hair for her.

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Lincoln was pronounced dead at 7:22 a.m on April 15, 1865 at the age of 56. The president’s body was placed in a temporary coffin, draped with a flag and escorted by armed cavalry to the White House, where surgeons conducted a thorough autopsy.

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They heard Mary Lincolns scream and Charles Leale found the president slumped in his chair paralyzed and struggling to breathe. They concluded that Lincoln could not be saved and he would probably die later that night.

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John Booth was a supporter of Slavery and he believe that Lincoln was determined to overthrow the constitution and to destroy his beloved South.

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Lincoln was killed April 14, 1865. He was attending the a play at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C by a Confederate Sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth.

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As president, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization.

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Lincoln ran for against Stephen A Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, as he was debating with Douglas he gained national reputation that won him the Republican Nomination for President in 1860.

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Abraham married Mary Todd and they had four boys but only 1 of the boys lived.

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Abraham extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while he would work in a farm, splitting rails for fences. He spent 8 years in the Illinois legislature

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Lincoln was born in February 12, 1809. He was born Kentucky.

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Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of American from March 1861 until his Assassination in April 1865 .