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- Appamatix Courthouse
- Lincoln Shot
- Seward Attack
- "Crushed by the fall of Richmond, the former rebel capital, John Wilkes Booth , left Washington . The news there was terrible for him,. On April 9 Confederate General Rober E. Lee and Army of Northern Viriginia surrederred to Union General Grant at Appomatix. Booth wandered the streets in despare."(Swandson
- Powell Captured
- "Then, if he missed, or failed to kill the presedent, he would turn to his backup wepon, a Rio Grande camp knife, a handsome and extreamly sharp type of bowie knife. (Swanson, 20)
- Crossing the Potomac
- "Across the room, Sergent Robinson reganed his senses. He would fight to the death before he allowed the assasin to murder the secratary and Fanny. He charged into Powell. In an instant , the two batte-harded Civil War veterans grappled in. a death struggle. Powell's strenght surrpisedd Roinson- he could barely hikd on to him as Powell went for Seward again.." (Swanson, 57)
- Booth Beaten
- "The soldiers arrest Powell, Mary Surrat, her daughters, Anna, Lewis Weichman, and the rest of the boarderes. They serched the hosue and found evidence: photographhs of Confederate gerals, one of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, some ammunition, and a photo of John Wilies Booth, hiddent behind a picture frame." (Swanson, 133)
- "On the night of April 22, after another night's delay John Wilkes Booth and David Herold finally climed aboard the baot and rowed out into the Potomac town twords Viriginia. They time they steered the correct course and, after sevralmhours, spotted thier destenation-- the mouth of of a creek on the Virginia side of the Potomac. They landed and disenmbareked. At last, on April 23, nine days after the assasaination, John Wilies Booth and David Herold set foot on Virginia soil." (Swanson, 151)
- "Anticipating the barn to be burned down, Booth xhanllenged all of his persures to honorable combayt on open ground. e had just challenegd twenty six men, a liutenint, adn two dectitive sto a duel. Baker declined the offer." (Swanson170)
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