1831-1900 (Carpe Diem)

Abe's Narrow Escape
The American Civil War was finally over. On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant. Back in Washington, President Abraham Lincoln was very confident in the Union's chances of victory. So confident in fact, that President Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, decided to attend the play Our American Cousin in Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. The presidential couple would not be alone, as Henry Rathbone and his wife would be joining them.