The Plot to Assassinate General Grant

Originally posted on Presidential History Blog:

General Grant was one of John Wilkes Booth’s targets on April 14, 1865.

The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant was published some seventy-five years after her death.

This is Julia Grant’s story, penned some 35 years after it occurred, and not known to the general public for more than a century.

April 14, 1865

The article had appeared in the newspapers. General and Mrs. Grant would join the President and Mrs. Lincoln at Ford’s Theater later...