I think it was five days he was shot by John Wilks Boothe and Fords theatre
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Answer President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
President Lincoln was unable to do anything after the Civil War because he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth FIVE days after the Civil War ended.
Abraham Lincoln was President when he was assassinated; so no, he did not retire. He died in office, 6 days after the American Civil War ended.
No the war ended on April 9 and Lincoln died on April 15 -correction. Technically the Civil War ended on May 10,1865, the day Confederate president Jefferson Davis was captured. On that day Andrew Johnson (the new president after Abraham Lincoln) declared the war officially over.
The US Civil War: Abraham Lincoln was President during the entire Civil War; from 1861-1865. He was assassinated 5 days after Lee surrendered to Grant, which was the act that ended the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln was the President for five days after the war ended, then he was shot and killed. Andrew Johnsonbecame President when Lincoln was killed and was President until March 4, 1869 when he was replaced by Gen. Ulysses Grant.
5 days after the US Civil War ended, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
He was at Ford's Theatre. The play was "Our American Cousin".
Booth shot and murdered President Abraham Lincoln. After the assassination of President Lincoln, the North took harsh measures against the South. The reunification the country did not go as well under President Andrew Johnson as it would have under President Lincoln, If President Lincoln had not been shot. President Johnson did not like Black people, and he was not in favor of civil rights as President Lincoln was.
Yes, he died 5 days after the Civil War ended.
yes, technically the Civil War ended on May 10,1865, the day Confederate president Jefferson Davis was captured. On that day Andrew Johnson declared the war officially over. So,yes, he was assassinated before the civil war ended.