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Historical Highway MarkersAssassin's EndEP-20
This is the site of Locust Hill, Richard Henry Garrett's farm. Early on the morning of 26 April 1865, a 16th New York Cavalry detachment cornered John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, and his co-conspirator, David E. Herold, as the two men slept in Garrett’s tobacco barn. Herold gave himself up, but Booth refused to surrender. The barn was set on fire, and Sgt. Boston Corbett shot the assassin, still inside. Booth was laid on the porch of the Garrett house and died about sunrise. The house and barn stood a short distance from this spot.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Arthur F. Loux, John Wilkes Booth: Day by Day (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014): 220-221, 226. James O. Hall, comp., On the Way to Garrett’s Barn (Clinton, MD: Surratt Society, 2001). Michael W. Kauffman, American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies (New York: Random House, 2004), 316-320. William C. Edwards and Edward Steers Jr., eds., The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009). |