Lincoln died on April 15, 1865, at 7:22 A.M. He was assassinated one day after his victory over the Confederacy in the Civil War ended with the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Lincoln was shot multiple times by John Wilkes Booth while attending a performance at Ford's Theatre. The president died eight hours later in a room at the nearby Petersen House under the care of doctors William Bell Clark and Henry Leale.