Everton Conger
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.
- Samuel Mudd at His Farmhouse…o every military station in southern Maryland. It reached the cavalry detachments under Lieutenant Edward P. Doherty and Lieutenant Colonel Everton Conger. It reached the naval vessels patrolling the river. It reached the civilian population in the form of reward notices that would eventually,…
- The Confederate's Oath After Appomattox…und the right geography, the right description, the right pattern of movement. The cavalry detachments under Doherty and Lieutenant Colonel Everton Conger, the detective Lafayette Baker’s agents, the river patrols—all were converging on the stretch of Maryland shore where Booth and Herold lay…
- The Refuge at the Garrett Farm…er, the detective who had built a network of informants throughout the occupied South, and Baker’s chosen instrument was Lieutenant Colonel Everton Conger. Following the assassination of President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, Conger was ordered to accompany a detachment of 25 Union soldiers from…