Lafayette Baker
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…Sunday, April 16, elements of the 16th New York Cavalry were operating in Charles County, following the telegraphic instructions of Colonel Lafayette Baker and the War Department’s expanding dragnet. They found Mudd at his farm. They found the burned boot, or what remained of it. They found tha…
- The Confederate's Oath After Appomattox…ight 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 hidden. Booth read of this conv…
- The Price on the President’s Head…edirected toward specific named targets. The military occupation of the southern states, already organized for control, adapted to pursuit. Lafayette Baker embodied this adaptation. His methods combined systematic intelligence gathering with improvised brutality. Agents were dispatched to south…