Timeline

March 4: President Lincoln’s second inauguration

April 9: General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox, Virginia

April 14: John Wilkes Booth mortally wounds President Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre. Dr. Charles Liebermann is among those called to his bedside

April 15: President Lincoln dies

April 19: Lincoln’s funeral procession includes 125 marchers from Washington Hebrew Congregation; Beth El Hebrew holds a memorial service for President Lincoln 

December 6: Slavery abolished with ratification of 13th Amendment