Mary Surratt
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…alone toward their rendezvous. Powell, abandoned, made his own way out of the city. He would wander for three days before being captured at Mary Surratt’s boarding house, still carrying the weapons of his failed assassination. His capture, and the evidence found on him, would help seal Mary…
- The Sergeant at the Navy Yard Bridge…thizers might offer shelter or at least silence. This knowledge had been acquired through months of preparation, through the cultivation of Mary Surratt and her son John, through reconnaissance disguised as theatrical touring and social visiting. The conspiracy had existed as intention long…
- The Shadow on the Surratt Portrait…t 541 H Street, the boarding house sat in the stillness of Good Friday evening, its parlor lamp turned low against the approaching Sabbath. Mary Surratt climbed the front steps shortly before eleven o’clock, the jangle of her keys the only sound on the deserted street. She had spent the afte…