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Telegram calling for the arrest of John Wilkes Booth

Telegram calling for the arrest of John Wilkes Booth

Document from Apr. 15, 1865

Booth Shot and Killed

Newspaper from April 28, 1865

Wilkes Booth and his Dead Body [From the Cincinnati Union of Sunday]

Wilkes Booth and his Dead Body

Newspaper from September 18, 1866

Contemporary copy of telegram of J.B. Montgomery, Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., to Hon. Secretary of the Navy [Gideon Welles], Navy Department, April 26, 1865

Telegram of J.B. Montgomery, April 26, 1865

Document from Apr. 26, 1865

Contemporary copy of telegram of J.B. Montgomery, Navy Yard, Washington, to G.V. Fox, Asst. Secretary of the Navy, Navy Dept., April 25, 1865

Telegram of J.B. Montgomery, April 25, 1865

Document from Apr. 25, 1865

Note signed M. Winship, Headquarters Provost Marshal General, Defences South of Potomac, Alexandria, Va., to John A. Foster, April 26, 1865

Note signed M. Winship, Headquarters Provost Marshal General, Defences South of Potomac, Alexandria, Va., to John A. Foster, April 26, 1865

Letter from Apr. 26, 1865

Contemporary copy of telegram of J.B. Montgomery, Navy Yard, Washington, to Hon. Secretary of the Navy [Gideon Welles], Navy Dept., April 27, 1865

Telegram of J.B. Montgomery, April 27, 1865

Document from Apr. 27, 1865

Contemporary copy of telegram of Gideon Welles, Secy. Navy, Navy Department, Washington City, to Comd. Montgomery [J.B. Montgomery], Comdt. Navy Yard, April 27, 1865

Telegram of Gideon Welles, April 27, 1865

Document from Apr. 27, 1865

United States Military Telegraph of F.A. Parker to Senr. Naval Officer, Pt. Lookout, April 29, 1865

Telegram of F.A. Parker, April 29, 1865

Document from Apr. 29, 1865

Contemporary copy of telegram of J.B. Montgomery, Navy Yard, Washington, to Hon. Secretary of the Navy [Gideon Welles], Washington, D.C., April 30, 1865

Telegram of J.B. Montgomery, April 30, 1865

Document from Apr. 30, 1865

Illinois Daily State Journal, April 28, 1865

Illinois Daily State Journal, April 28, 1865

Newspaper from Apr. 28, 1865

Note signed M. Winship, Headquarters Provost Marshal General, Defences South of Potomac, Alexandria, Va., to Geo. R. Maguire, Fairfax C.H., April 17, 1865

M. Winship Note, April 17, 1865

Letter from Apr. 17, 1865

Contemporary copy of telegram of J.B. Montgomery, Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., to Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, April 18, 1865

Telegram of J.B. Montgomery, April 18, 1865

Document from Apr. 18, 1865

U.S. Military Telegraph of S. Nickerson, St. Inegoes [St. Inigoes], to A.N. Lt. Peter Hays, Yorktown, April 18, 1865

Telegraph of S. Nickerson, April 18, 1865

Document from Apr. 18, 1865

Contemporary copy of telegram of J.B. Montgomery, Navy Yard, Washington, to Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, April 21, 1865

Telegram of J.B. Montgomery, April 21, 1865

Document from Apr. 21, 1865

Contemporary copy of telegram of M. Winship, Headquarters Provost Marshal General, Defences South of Potomac, Alexandria, Va., to Col. Taylor, Chf. of Staff and A.A.G., April 22, 1865

Telegram of M. Winship, April 22, 1865

Document from Apr. 22, 1865

Contemporary copy of telegram of Gideon Welles, Office U.S. Military Telegraph, Navy Department, Washington, D.C., to Com. F.A. Parker, U.S.A., Relay House, April 22, 1865

Telegram of Gideon Welles, April 22, 1865

Document from Apr. 22, 1865

Contemporary copy of telegram of J.B. Montgomery, Navy Yard, Washington, to Hon. Secretary of the Navy [Gideon Welles], Navy Dept., April 24, 1865

Telegram of J.B. Montgomery, April 24, 1865

Document from Apr. 24, 1865

"Murder Most Foul!"

Newspaper from Apr. 17, 1865

"Abraham Lincoln died this morning"

Newspaper from Apr. 26, 1865