Shipwreck on the Potomac Disaster in Pursuit of Lincoln's Killer ( Karen Stone-CH) section-Uniforms Lincoln spent July 4 riding

Lincoln spent July 4 riding in a train of ambulances carrying casualties from the Peninsula Campaign to Washington hospitals

in the balance

After the ferocious fighting at Cold Harbor

At the outset of the Battle of the Wilderness

affected soldiers and were in turn affected by them

Shipwreck on the Potomac Disaster in Pursuit of Lincoln's Killer ( Karen Stone-CH) section-Uniforms Lincoln spent July 4 ridingBy Karen E. Stone They Didnt Need to be There It was a calm, moonless night in late April 1865. Robert E. Lee had surrendered. Abraham Lincoln was dead. Assassin John Wilkes Booth and accomplice David Herold, previously hiding in the swamps of Southern Maryland, had crossed the Potomac River to safety. The barge Black Diamond was anchored with the Potomac Flotilla near Blackistone Lighthouse, hoping to prevent that crossing and catch the perpetrators.