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Transcription: The terrible war between the states dragged on with appalling losses. Fighting was concluded at last at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. The war was over. Five days after Appomattox, for relaxation, President and Mrs. Lincoln attended a popular comedy at Ford's Theater in Washington. A woman in the audience noted, the president is in yonder upper right-hand private box, so handsomely decked with silken flags festooned over a picture of George Washington. John Wilkes Booth was a well-known actor, but a d ...