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Jonh Wilkes Booth Imprisonment and trial of the conspirators
At the time of the shooting of the President by Booth, in Ford's Theater, Washington, April 14th, 1865, General Baker and his cousin, L. B. Baker (now in the Auditor General's office at Lansing), who had sewed as a lieutenant in the cavalry referred to, and then serving in the detective force, were in New York city looking after bounty jumpers. Secretary Stan-ton telegraphed these two officers to come to Washington immediately. They arrived in Washington the morning of the third day after the terrible deed was committed. Cavalry had scoured the country in every direction for miles around Washington, and telegrams were sent over all the lines. General Baker gained all the information he could in regard to the route Booth and his accomplices would probably take, and concluded that they would go down the Potomac, taking in Surratsville, cross the river, and make their way to Richmond.
Michigan in the Civil War
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