April 14th, 1865. The Confederacy had fallen only a little over a week prior, and celebration was still widespread. Union supporters were ecstatic over the end of the war and the end of the bloodshed. However, an evil plot brewed in the darkness, one that could change the course of history forever. Confederate allies, enraged by the loss of their army, schemed to exact their revenge on the Union stealing their way of life from them. The man who wanted the biggest part in it all? John Wilkes Booth. Booth knew that President Lincoln, the head of the Union, would be watching Our American Cousin at Ford’s theatre tonight. His plan was…