All things dealing with the Civil War Navies and actions along the coasts and rivers and against forts. Emphasis will be placed on Fort Fisher and all operations around Wilmington, NC. And, of course, the Blockade and Running the Blockade.
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
What Happened to Booth's Body?
Several posts ago, I wrote about Booth's body being examined on the monitor USS Montauk (which participated in the move up the Cape Fear River to capture Wilmington after the fall of Fort Fisher) and then taken to be buried at Washington Arsenal (now Fort McNair) in a gunbox.
It did not stay there, however.
From Real-LifeVillains Wiki.
He was first buried in a storage room at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary, then in a warehouse and finally at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, four years after his death.
--Old B-Runner
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