Lincoln's Last Months: A Bullet Through His Hat and Booth's Three-Part Plot

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One August night in 1864, a rifle shot startled Abraham Lincoln's horse as he rode alone toward his summer cottage; guards later found his stovepipe hat with a bullet hole through the crown, and Lincoln asked them to keep it quiet. In April 1865 he described recurring dreams of a fast vessel heading for a dark shore and a dream of a corpse lying in the East Room. John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor, had planned to kidnap Lincoln to force a resumption of prisoner exchanges, but after hearing Lincoln's April 11 speech supporting votes for Black Americans, he turned to murder.

On April 14 Booth assigned himself Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Lewis Powell Secretary of State William Seward, and George Atzerodt Vice President Andrew Johnson. Ulysses and Julia Grant declined to attend, and guard John Frederick Parker left his post for the Star Saloon. Booth shot Lincoln during a laugh line, fought Major Henry Rathbone and broke his leg leaping to the stage. Lincoln died at the Petersen house the next morning, and Booth was shot in a burning tobacco barn at Garrett's Farm on April 26.

Booth bored a peephole in the box door and wedged the outer door shut with a piece of wood.
Dr. Charles Leale cleared a clot from the wound so Lincoln could breathe again.
A metal and canvas jaw splint from a recent carriage accident deflected Powell's knife from Seward's throat.
Atzerodt got drunk in his hotel bar and never attempted the attack on Johnson.
Sergeant Boston Corbett shot Booth against orders, and Booth's last words were useless, useless.

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