. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. nto be the wild conception of Booth and a few of his com-rades as crack-brained as himself. Had Davis been in anyway connected with the scheme, he would have been triedfor it and executed, after he was taken prisoner. Lincolns term of ojffice thus lasted but four years andforty days, and another was added to the list of Ameri-cas Presidents that had died in the harness. To briefly enumerate the eventful occurrences of his ad-ministration they were the secession of MississiiDpi, Alaba-ma, Florida, Georgia
. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. nto be the wild conception of Booth and a few of his com-rades as crack-brained as himself. Had Davis been in anyway connected with the scheme, he would have been triedfor it and executed, after he was taken prisoner. Lincolns term of ojffice thus lasted but four years andforty days, and another was added to the list of Ameri-cas Presidents that had died in the harness. To briefly enumerate the eventful occurrences of his ad-ministration they were the secession of MississiiDpi, Alaba-ma, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee,North Carolina, Missouri and Arkansas; the organization ofthe Southern Confederacy; the attack on Sumpter; thenaval battle of the Merrimac and Monitor; the numerousbattles of the war ; the emancipation proclamation; the ad-mission of the western part of Virginia as a State, the ad-mission of Nevada; the naval battle of the Ahi])ama andKearsage; the fall of Richmond ; the surrender of Lee andJohnson; and the assassination of the President 392 LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OP ANDREW JOHNSON. Andrew Johnson was born in North Carolina, December29, 1808, and died July 31,1875. He was a resident ofTennessee when elected Vice-President, and on Lincolnsdeath became President, being inaugurated April 15, was a man of strict integrity, but obstinate, dogmaticand self-willed. He was thoroughly patriotic and utterlyfearless in the discharge of his duty. He put the machineryof the army and the police in motion to apprehend Boothand his companions, aiid on the 26th of April, Booth wassurrounded in a barn, where he had been forced to take ref-uge on account of a fractured ankle, and refusing to surren-der, he was fired upon and killed. His companion, a young man named Harold, was taken atthe time and afterwards hung at the same time with LouisPayne Powell, Atzerott and Mrs. Mary E. Surratt. Theexecution of the latter was nothing more t
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