Garrett farm
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 Sergeant at the Navy Yard Bridge…his commitment. Herold would accompany Booth to the home of Samuel Mudd, would share the pine thicket days, would surrender finally at the Garrett farm when the tobacco barn burned around them. His presence on the bridge marked him as committed beyond recall, a fellow traveler in a flight t…
- After Days of Hiding…of concealment. Each movement was shorter, more tentative, more obviously driven by immediate necessity rather than strategic purpose. The Garrett farm, when they reached it on April 24, represented not a destination but a terminus, the last point before capture or death. The chapter of the…
- The Refuge at the Garrett Farm…urratt and for the man still unknown who had attacked Secretary Seward. The notices reached Port Royal, the nearest town of any size to the Garrett farm, and they reached the Confederate veterans who drifted through the region in the war’s final dissolution. Yet the notices did not reach Ric…