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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 107. Chapters: Abraham Lincoln assassination, People murdered in Washington, D.C., Terrorism deaths in Washington, D.C., Beltway sniper attacks, Boston Corbett, Orlando Letelier, Chandra Levy, James A. Garfield, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Murder of Robert Eric Wone, Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting, Mary Pinchot Meyer, Ward Hill Lamon, United States Capitol shooting incident, Ford's Theatre, Joseph Barnes, Lincoln Tomb, James W. Pumphrey, Lincoln assassination flags, Francis Tumblety, Our American Cousin, Anderson Ruffin Abbott, Leslie Coffelt, 1977 Hanafi Siege, John Surratt, John T. Ford, Philip Barton Key II, Joyce Chiang, Henry Rathbone, John Gibson, Ronni Moffitt, The Conspirator, Lincoln's Ghost, Charles Leale, Louis J. Weichmann, Laura Keene, Charles H. Crane, Lincoln Catafalque, Mary E. Surratt Boarding House, O Captain! My Captain!, The Lincoln Conspiracy, Sic semper tyrannis, Michael J. Halberstam, Alan Senitt, William M. Stone, Albert Freeman Africanus King, Phineas Densmore Gurley, Albert G. Riddle, Clara Harris, Arthur Brown, Tran Van Chuong, David Rosenbaum, Jacob Chestnut, William P. Taulbee, Samuel J. Seymour, Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., Peter Taltavull, John M. Lloyd, Charles Sabin Taft, Alma Preinkert, Robert K. Stone. Excerpt: Abraham Lincoln .) (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865), the 16th President of the United States, served from March 1861 until his assassination. He led the country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis-the American Civil War-preserving the Union while ending slavery and promoting economic and financial modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated. He became a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, and a one-term member of the United States House of Re...