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Jonh Wilkes Booth Imprisonment and trial of the conspirators
Michigan troops receive credit for many special acts in the field, and she claims others for some of her citizens and soldiers in connection with duties in the administration of justice in criminal affairs, among which, particularly, may be named the capture of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, and the trial, conviction, and execution of the other conspirators found guilty of conspiring to assassinate him and his cabinet.
Regarding the capture of Booth, it may be stated that General L. C. Baker, a Michigan man (his father being an early pioneer of Clinton county), had been colonel of the 1st District of Columbia Cavalry, but which at the time of the assassination had been mustered out of service, Baker remaining as chief of the detective force at Washington, acting under the orders of the Secretary of War.
Michigan in the Civil War
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