Killing Lincoln (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Abraham Lincoln: President of the United States. Strong in his convection of uniting the country. Physically. strong and about 6 foot 6 inches tall.
• Andrew Johnson: Vice President for Lincoln.
• Robert E. Lee: General of the Confederate army. A stately southern gentleman.
• Ulysses S. Grant: General of the Union army. A friend of Lincoln, and later president of United States
• John Wilkes Booth: Popular actor, ladies man. spearheaded the plot for Lincoln's assassination. Southern sympathizer. Wanted to stop the South from reuniting with the Union. Thought he would be a hero if he killed Lincoln.
• Mary Todd Lincoln: Lincoln's love and wife. While in the white house she lost children and had serious nervous problems and a disagreeable personality.
• Robert Todd Lincoln: President Lincoln's eldest son.
• Edwin M. Stanton: Secretary of war. Also was suspected of being in the conspiracy of killing the president.
• Jefferson Davis: President of the Confederate States of America.
• William Withers Jr.: The Orchestra Director for Ford's Theater. Booth shares a conversation and drinks with this man just before the assassination. In response to Withers' comment that Booth will never be as talented as his father, the younger Booth focuses his gaze on Withers and says the truest sentence he will ever speak: "When I leave the stage I will be the most talked about man in America."Later, when Lincoln enters the theater, Withers stops the orchestra and immediately launches into "Hail to the Chief."
• James Ford: James Ford is the manager of Ford's Theater. He sent word to Mary Lincoln that he is staging the wildly popular farce Our American Cousin. And he suggested to Mary that this will be the one thousandth performance by Laura Keene in her signature role as Florence Trenchard. And that this a milestone not to be missed. This surely contributed to the decision and events that led up to the tragic noght in that theater.
• Francis P. Washburn: Colonel Francis Washburn of the Fourth Massachusetts Calvary orders his unit to gallop ahead of the infantry and burn the bridge at High Bridge, near Farmville, Virginia to cut off the escape of the confederate troops to the South during one of the final campaigns of the Civil war.
• Naylor: Naylor owns and operates the stable where he one of the co-conspirators, David Herold rented horses for himself and for Lewis Powell on their mission to assassinate Secretary Seward.
• Mr. Horace Greeley: Famous writer and news man who reported much of the story when the details were fresh.
• John Fletcher: John Fletcher is the stable foreman where David Herold obtains the roan he used in escape from Washington with Booth after the assassination.
• Dr. Samuel A. Mudd: Eminent physician and Confederate sympathizer. He provided his home as a way station for the escape of Booth, David Herold and others who were friends of the South operating in the Union area.
• Lewis Payne: Alias of Lewis Powell.
• Silas T. Cobb: Military sentry guarding the wooden drawbridge by the Navy Yard, which is the route Booth chose for his escape from Washington. Booth arrives there thirty minutes after the assassination, and Cobb tells Booth that it is against the law to pass after nine P.M. After a brief discussion, he allow Booth, and a short time later allows avid Herold to cross the bridge and escape South.
• Henry Reed Rathbone: Major Henry Reed Rathbone is a minor diplomat who is a strapping young man and saw service during the war. He and Clara Harris are the guests of May and President Lincoln to the theater that fateful night.
• Narrator: I wish that they wrote history textbooks like this! You knew what was going to happen, but you were still turning the pages as fast as you could.
• Willie: The Lincoln's son who died at age 11.
• Mr. Duesterbeck: Add a description of this character.
• David Herold: One of John Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators.
• Dr. Joseph Barnes
• Mary Surratt: Owner of a tavern in Maryland where Confederate sympathizers could meet.
• George Atzerodt: One of Booth's co-conspirators.
• William H. Seward: Secretary of State. Is severely injured due to a fall from a carriage.
• Laura Keene: The most famous actress of the time. Performing her 1000th and last performance of Our American Cousin.
• Miss Fanny Seward: The Secretary of States daughter.
• Lucy Lambert Hale: A flirtatious young woman who is secretly engaged to Booth.
• Clara Harris: A friend of Mary Lincoln. They have a mother-daughter like relationship. Clara attends the play with her fiancee and the Lincolns.
• Edwin Booth: John Wilkes Booth's older brother and a more famous actor.
• William Crook: One of the President's bodyguards.
• George Armstrong Custer: A general in the Union Army.
• Frederick Seward: Secretary of State William Sewards son.
• Julia Grant: General Grant's wife.
• Peter Taltavul: Owner of a tavern next door to Ford's Theater.
• Wilmer McLean: The man who's home is used as the meeting place for the surrender in Appomatox Courthouse

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Richmond, Virginia: Capitol of the Confederate States of America.
• Washington D.C.: Capitol of the United States of America.
• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Site of one of the Civil War battles and site of Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address.

Organizations edit see section history

• Union Army: Army fighting for the North or the United States of America. Headed by General Ulysses S. Grant. Wore blue.
• Confederate Army: Army fighting for the South or the Confederate States of America. Headed by General Robert E. Lee. Wore Gray.

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Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Unification: Lincoln's goal was to re-unify the North and the South. The Civil War was also the turning point in referring to the United States as a single unit. (Prior to the Civil War, common usage was "The United States are . . .")

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Bill O'Reilly (Author)
2. Martin Dugard (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: 1. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809 - 1865 - Assassination. 1. Dugard, Martin. II. Title E457.5.074 2011
• Dewey: 973.7092 -- dc22

Notes for Parents edit see section history

and adults

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › History › Americas › United States › Civil War