Virginia. At the end of the Civil War, President Lincoln strolled through the streets of Richmond on April 4, 1865 where he witnessed firsthand the devastation of the fallen Confederate capital.

On this day in history, April 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was killed when Union soldiers tracked him down to a farm in Virginia 12 days after he fatally ...

Richard H. Black of Loudoun County, who is not even sure there should be a statue of the 16th president anywhere in Virginia. The major objection is that Lincoln came to gloat over Richmond's fall.

Richmond fell on April 3rd, Lee surrendered on April 9th, and Lincoln gave his final speech ... and faced them and cried out the state motto of Virginia." That motto—Sic semper tyrannis, a ...

Sawyer, an audience member. "My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families — second families, perhaps I should say," wrote Lincoln during the 1860 presidential campaign.