Pembunuhan Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, Presiden Amerika Serikat ke-16, dibunuh oleh John Wilkes Booth pada Jumat Agung, 14 April 1865, saat menghadiri drama Our American Cousin di Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C., saat Perang Saudara Amerika menjelang akhir.[1] Pembunuhan tersebut terjadi lima hari setelah komandan Tentara Negara-negara Terkonfederasi|Konfederasi]] Tentara Virginia Utara, Jenderal Robert E. Lee, menyerah kepada Letnan Jenderal Ulysses S. Grant dan Tentara Potomac.
Proclamation of Emancipation
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-In-Chief
of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed
rebellion against the authority and government of the United States,
and as a fit and necessary war measure for supressing said
rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in
accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the
full period of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned,
order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the
people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against
the United States the following, to wit: