April 17-25, 1865-- Part 1: The Monitors Montauk and Saugus and the Lincoln Conspirators

APRIL 17TH TO 25TH, 1865:  Four of the five Lincoln assassination suspects arrested on the 17th were imprisoned  on the monitors USS Montauk and USS Saugus which had been prepared for this purpose on the 15th and were anchored off the Washington Navy Yard on the Anacostia River.

Mrs. Mary E. Surratt was taken into custody at the boarding house she operated after it was learned that her son was a close friend of John Wilkes Booth and that the actor was a frequent visitor at the boarding house.

Mrs. Surratt was jailed at the Carroll Annex of Old Capitol Prison.

Lewis Paine was also taken into custody when he came to Mrs. Surratt's boarding house while she was being arrested.

--Old B-Runner