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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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, PATRIOT PUB. CO, WASHINGTON LIVERY STABLE, 1865WHERE BOOTH BOUGHT A HORSE AFTER LINCOLNS ASSASSINATION After shooting President Lincoln in a liox at Fords Theater in Washington, April 14, 18(io,Wilkes Booth escaped from the city. Guided by sympathizers, he crossed the Potomac nearPort Tobacco, Md., to ^Nlathias Point, ^a., on the night of Saturday, April 22d. The follow-ing Monday he crossed the Rapjxdiannock from Port Conway to Port Royal and took refuge ina barn. Here he was discovered two days later by a detachment of Company L, Sixteenth NewYork Cavalry, and killed. The assassination of the President was the result of a conspiracy.William H. Seward, Secretary of State, was attacked on the same evening by Lewis Payne, afellow-conspirator of Booth, and was .severely injured. Those suspected of being invohed in theconspiracy were tried before a military commission convened at Washington May 9, 1865.Their names were David E. Herold, G. A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, Michael OLaughlin, Ed
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