Killing Lincoln Sparknotes

How one man would die just to take the life of another man and how that man John Wilkes Booth could have not been stopped. In Killing Lincoln by Bill o'reilly John Wilkes booth can not be stopped on his plan to assassinate the president of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln. First the Assassination of Lincoln really messed up the Confederates joining the Union again and made it a lot hard also it put John Wilkes Booth as the number one most wanted fugitive.

Assassination of president Lincoln was a tremendous mistake by John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices. This book shows how the Confederate was going to be defeated by the Union and gracefully accepted back into the Union as long as president Lincoln was alive. The Union was closing in on the Confederates very fast once they lost Richmond, then he knew that he must follow through with his plans. When John Wilkes Booth assassinated

After 12 days on the run John Wilkes booth knows that it is the end of the line, when the Union soldiers found him in a farmhouse in Virginia. This scene in the book really describes how determined the Union is to track and capture John Wilkes Booth for the assassination of president Lincoln. Also the it was the first time the United States had executed a woman, by the name of Mary Surratt an accomplice of Booth. On p.232 Secretary Stanton said, “Now he belongs to the ages.” This quote displays how president Lincoln is gone and now John Wilkes Booth is next and how they are very mourned by the death of one of the greatest presidents in United States history. On April 26, 1865 the man hunt was over he was dead, this book displayed how the concept of assassination can put people into overdrive to complete their goal of killing the president of the United States of