Booth's Body Transferred Back to Washington for Autopsy-- Part 1

From American Battlefield Trust "Stalking John Wilkes Booth."

David Herold surrendered at the Garrett barn in Virginia, but John Wilkes Booth refused.  Union Sgt. Boswton Corbett shot Booth in the neck and paralyzed him from the waist down, but he retained consciousness.  Booth was then  dragged out of the barn to the porch of the Garrett home where he lingered before dying at around 7 a.m..

Among his last words were, "Tell my mother I died for my country."

His body was then placed in a wagon and taken to Belle Plain, Virginia,   There, it was placed on the steam tug John S. Ide and carried up the Potomac River, under the Naval Yard Bridge to the Washington Navy Yard, where his body was transferred to the deck of the monitor USS Montauk.

The Byline site's "The Capture, Death and Burial of John Wilkes Booth" by Ray Stannard Baker said that the John S. Ide was the same boat on which Lt. Edward P. Doherty and 25 members of the 16th New York Cavalry, including Sergeant Boston Corbett as second in command had left Washington  a little after 3 o'clock Monday, April 24 and gone to Belle Plain Landing to search for Booth, having intelligence that he was in the area.

--Old B-Runner