Secretary of State William Seward's simultaneous, near-fatal, assassination attempt with Abraham Lincoln's murder

https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/4217 THIS SELDOM-REPORTED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF LINCOLN'S ABOLITIONIST, SECRETARY OF STATE, WILLIAM SEWARD, OCCURRED ON THE SAME DATE & TIME OF LINCOLN'S ACTUAL ASSASSINATION. A FEIGNED "ATTEMPT" WAS ALSO PURPORTEDLY MADE ON THE LIFE OF THEN-VICE PRESIDENT, ANDREW JOHNSON, ON THE SAME DATE AND TIME, THOUGH JOHNSON WAS UNSCATHED! WILLIAM WELLS BROWN IN "THE NEGRO IN THE WAR OF AMERICAN REBELLION," ATTRIBUTES LINCOLN'S DEATH, SIMULTANEOUS SEWARD'S CRITICAL INJURIES, AND JOHNSON'S "MIRACULOUS ESCAPE" TO THE CONFEDERATE SECRET SERVICE, PARTICULARLY TO ONE MARY SARRATT OF BALTIMORE, WHOSE WASHINGTON, D.C. BOARDING HOUSE, WAS FREQUENTED BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH AND OTHER CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIZERS. SEWARD BEFRIENDED HARRIET TUBMAN, "SELLING' HER A FARM, IN HIS NATIVE NEW YORK.