the hotel and booth will kill lincoln during the performance of aladdin at grovers theater. with little more than 24 hours to live, abraham lincoln rises at 7:00 a.m. and writing four brief messages including one instructing acting secretary of state frederick seward to call a cabinet meeting for 11:00 a.m. then, joins his family at breakfast to find his eldest son robert just returned from witnessing the surrender at appommatox. >> general lee, stately, elegant, his uniform spotless, with a jeweled sword and shining spurs and general grant, so shabby in a muddy blue uniform,