Ka cika wannan magana: Yawancin mazauna Washington, D.C., sun yi mamaki da kuma firgita sa'ad da aka kashe Shugaban Republican Abraham Lincoln a ranar 14 ga Afrilu, 1865. Saboda wurin da yake, wani lokacin ana zargin garin da nuna juyayi ga Confederacy a lokacin yakin basasa. Tun lokacin da aka kashe Lincoln a Washington, wasu daga cikin mazauna sun damu da shugabannin majalisa na Republican za su nemi fansa a birnin. Kwana goma sha uku bayan mutuwar Lincoln, a ƙoƙarin nuna aminci, birni da shugabannin kasuwanci sun yanke shawarar gina abin tunawa don girmama shugaban da aka kashe. Shi ne na farko Lincoln abin tunawa izini bayan mutuwarsa, amma ba na farko da aka gina. A shekara ta 1866, an kafa mutum-mutumi na filastik (daga baya an maye gurbinsa da ƙarfe) na Lincoln a San Francisco. An hallaka shi a lokacin hadarin wuta wanda ya biyo bayan
Girgizar ƙasa a shekara ta 1906.