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Jonh Wilkes Booth Imprisonment and trial of the conspirators
Colonel Conger gave Corbett a stinging reprimand and said to him, "Why did you shoot without orders?" The sergeant saluted the colonel, and, with his right hand pointing upwards, replied, "God Almighty directed me to shoot. " B. booth was carried to the dwelling house near by, but lived only for a short time, and when death came the body was sewed up in a blanket, placed in a wagon, and the party started on then way to Washington, on reaching which the body was delivered to Secretary of War Stanton, who ordered it placed in the Navy Yard, when, on being fully identified, it was buried in a grave dug under the stone floor of a cell in one of the buildings.
Michigan in the Civil War
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