Video: 'Ken.Burns.The.Civil.War.9of9.The.Better.Angels.Of.Our.Nature' (Lincoln dies at 17:53)

(Saturday, April 15, 1865, 7:22:10 a.m.; during the American Civil War) — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, 56, died this morning at the Petersen House in Washington, nine hours after he was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth.

Video: 'They've Killed President Lincoln' (Lincoln dies at 17:53)

Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton is said to have uttered, “Now he belongs to the ages.”