Lincoln's Last Days by Bill O'Reilly

Author:Bill O'Reilly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

One of John Wilkes Booth’s spurs.

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36

FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1865

Washington, D. C.

10:20 P. M.

WORD IS ALREADY SPREADING through Washington that the president has been shot. People aren’t racing away from Ford’s, they’re racing to Ford’s to see for themselves if these wild rumors are true.

Now a troop of cavalry arrives and plunges recklessly through the crowd assembling outside the theater. Inside, the audience surges toward the stage, chanting all the while that Booth must be caught and killed immediately. Laura Keene has the presence of mind to march to center stage and cry out for calm and sanity, but her words go unheeded.

Soon more bad news begins to spread: Secretary Seward has been assaulted in his bed.

In front of the Willard Hotel, John Fletcher is still seething that David Herold hasn’t returned the horse he rented earlier. At that very moment, Herold trots past. “You get off that horse now!” Fletcher cries, springing out into the street and reaching for the bridle. But Herold spurs the horse and gallops away. Acting quickly, Fletcher sprints back to his stable, saddles a horse for himself, and races after him.

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