![]() President Lincoln’s death devastated the nation, though it did nothing to reverse the fate of the Confederacy-the Union solidified its win of the Civil War the following month. ![]() President Lincoln died early the next morning, and Booth was later captured and killed in a barn in Virginia. In the chaotic aftermath, Booth jumped off the balcony and onto the stage, injuring his leg but still managing to escape. Lee (commander of the Confederate Army) surrendered to Union forces, John Wilkes Booth (a famous actor and fanatical Confederate supporter) snuck up behind President Lincoln in a theater balcony during a play and shot him in the back of the head. In 1865, the final year of the Civil War, the Confederacy (a group of pro-slavery southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860) was failing in its fight against the Union in support of states’ rights and slavery. ![]() The play’s two main characters, Lincoln and Booth, are named after prominent historical figures: President Abraham Lincoln and his assassin, the actor John Wilkes Booth. ![]()
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