David Herold
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 City of Oil Lamps…This plan had absorbed Booth’s energies and money, had drawn into its orbit a shifting group of conspirators—John Surratt, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Lewis Powell, Samuel Arnold, Michael O’Laughlen. The capture of Richmond and Lee’s surrender had rendered kidnapping obsolete. Booth adapt…
- The Scream Before the Shot…eward, his son Frederick, his daughter Fanny, a male nurse, and a State Department messenger—yet killed none. Then, like Booth, he had run. David Herold, the twenty-two-year-old pharmacist’s assistant who had guided Powell to the Seward house, had been waiting outside with their horses. When…
- The Shadow on the Surratt Portrait…the first prepared cache waited. John Wilkes Booth rode with his broken leg thrust forward, the splinted bone jarring with every hoof-fall. David Herold, a pharmacist’s assistant turned guide through country he knew from duck-hunting expeditions, kept to the saddle behind him. They did not s…