April 27, 1865: Booth's Body Delivered to USS Montauk-- Part 1

The Lincoln Assassination and Search for the Conspirators in Real Time.

APRIL 27TH, 1865:  The body of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, and David E. Herold, who had accompanied Booth in the escape from Washington and was with the actor when he was shot, were delivered on board the USS Montauk, anchored in the Anacostia River off the Washington Navy Yard.

Booth had been slain and Herold captured at John M. Garrett's farm three miles outside Port Royal, Virginia, in the early hours of the previous day.

--Old B-Runner