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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Assassination of Abraham LincolnJohn Wilkes Booth, born in Maryland into a family of prominent stage actors, had by the time of the assassination become a famous actor and national…
O Captain! My Captain!Walt Whitman moved to Washington, D.C. at the start of the American Civil War in 1861. He held government jobs with the Army Paymaster's Office and later the…
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'dWalt Whitman stood in the yard of his mother's home on the 14th of April 1865 when he heard that President Abraham Lincoln had been shot.