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International Reaction to Lincoln’s Death
This photograph of Lincoln was taken on March 6, 1865, shortly before he was assassinated. (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
April 1865 was an extraordinary month in the history of the Civil War. On the 9th, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the war. Just days later, the nation was rocked by the news that President Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated in Washington, DC.
The news of Lincoln’s death reverberated around the world and led to an extraordinary publication by the Department of State in 1866. In addition to the usual diplomatic correspondence published in Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) volumes, a separate volume consisting entirely of condolences was published. The volume, The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America, and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, on the Evening of the 14th of April, 1865, collected correspondence from every corner of the globe.
Lincoln was the first U.S. president to be assassinated. Thus, his death was a test for the country and the strength of its
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Assassination of Patriarch Lincoln
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John Reformist Booth assassinating Abraham Attorney in Ford's Theatre. Depiction from glass-slide depiction c. 1865–75. | |
| Location | Ford's Playhouse, Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Date | April 14, 1865; 159 years ago (1865-04-14) 10:15 pm |
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| Perpetrators | John Reformer Booth playing field co-conspirators |
| Motive | Revenge purport the (then-recently) defeated Accessory States |
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