Read the following excerpt from The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend In the meanwhile the news spread through the capital, as if borne [carried] on tongues of flame. Senator Sumner, hearing at his residence, of the affair took a carriage and drove at a gallop to the White House, when he heard where it had taken place, to find Robert Lincoln and other members of the household still unaware of it. Both drove to Ford's Theater, and were soon at the President's bedside. Secretary Stanton and the other members of the cabinet were at hand almost as soon. A vast crowd, surging up Pennsylvania Avenue toward Willard's Hotel, cried, "The President is shot!" "President Lincoln is murdered." Another crowd sweeping down the avenue met the first with the tidings, "Secretary Seward has been assassinated in bed." Instantly a wild apprehension of an organized conspiracy and of other murders took possession of the people. The shout "to arms!" was mingled with the expressions of sorrow and rage that everywhere filled the air. "Where is General Grant?" or "Where is Secretary Stanton!" "Where are the rest of the cabinet?" broke from thousands of lips. A conflagration (blaze) of fire is not half so terrible as was the conflagration of passion that rolled through the streets and houses of Washington on that awful night. Answer the questions based on your reading.

Based on chapter 5 and the selection from The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth, describe the scene of the streets surrounding Ford's Theater after Lincoln's assassination.

eerily calm

pure anger

oblivious to what had happened

panic and confusion