Mary is emotionally devastated and never fully recovers. The president issues a Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction for restoration of the Union. Atlanta is captured by Sherman's army. Doctors attend to the president in the theater, then move him to a house across the street. He never regains consciousness.
Slavery is abolished.
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