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Jonh Wilkes Booth Imprisonment and trial of the conspirators
They landed about 10 o'clock at night, and at once commenced the search, which they continued vigorously, moving rapidly from place to place, getting such slight information as they could force at the point of the revolver from parties whom they met, but sufficient to warrant the pursuit, which was followed across the Rappahannock at the ferry near Fort Conway, and thence to what was known as the Garrett place. There they found Booth and Harold concealed in a barn, and demanded their surrender, which Harold soon complied with, but Booth declined, threatening to fight and defend himself with arms until death, which necessitated the firing Of the building, and while it was burning Booth was shot through a crevice in the back wall of the barn by Boston Corbett, a sergeant of the cavalry force.
Michigan in the Civil War
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