Booth's Plan

By vanessaesanchez

  • Washington celebrated the end of the war with a grand illumination of the city

  • Booth visited the Bryantown tavern in southern Maryland

  • Richmond, Virginia fell to Union forces

  • Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Union General Grant

  • A torchlight parade of a few thousand people, with bands and banners, assembled on the semicircular driveway in front of the Executive Mansion

  • Booth shot Lincoln and stabbed Rathbone

  • Booth, Harold and Jones went tot get out of the village by a fishing boat but then ended up back in Maryland

  • Booth dies