Abraham Lincoln
Books
- Where Is Booth? The Twelve-Day Manhunt for John Wilkes Booth · Liszt Think
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth fled Ford’s Theatre into the Maryland night. What followed were twelve days of desperate evasion and relentless pursuit across the Potomac tidewater.
- The Scream Before the Shot…psest: layers of testimony, each honest, none complete. John Wilkes Booth, an American stage actor who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865, had prepared his exit as he prepared his entrance. The hole in the door to the presidential box—bored…
- The Confederate's Oath After Appomattox…a river, to reach the Virginia shore, to disappear into a countryside that might still harbor men willing to hide him. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln had come to this: a broken leg, a borrowed boat, a night crossing planned by a fifty-one-year-old tobacco farmer who was risking his life f…
- The Refuge at the Garrett Farm…as H. “Boston” Corbett was an American soldier and milliner who, on April 26, 1865, would kill John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. Known for his devout religious beliefs and eccentric behavior, Corbett had been a milliner in New York before the war, had castrated himse…