Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Mortally wounded, Lincoln lingered until the following morning, when he was pronounced dead at 7:22 AM.
B. On the evening of April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was shot by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. 
C. Secretary of State William Seward was gravely wounded by one of Booth’s co-conspirators, but Vice Pres. Andrew Johnson’s would-be assassin lost his nerve. 
D. Booth sought to avenge the collapse of the Confederacy, and the assassination of Lincoln was to be just one element in a broader plan that Booth had concocted to decapitate the federal government.