Reverend Gurley was still praying in the front room, where Mrs. Lincoln was lying on a stiff horsehair sofa. Her son Bob was standing at her head. When Billy Ferguson returned to Petersen’s at 9 ...

“This is the room, isn’t it ... We had been standing in front of the bed where President Lincoln had died. It was nothing fancy, just a wooden frame with a simple mattress and relatively ...

The circumstances surrounding the death of President Abraham Lincoln are well-known. He was shot in the head at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865, while attending a play with his wife, Mary, and ...

The air inside the house is close and musty. A little sign on a table says simply, "President Lincoln died in this room at 7:22 a.m. on April 15, 1865." Lincoln was 6-foot-4. They had to lay him ...