States, 'Ned Spangler [Edmund Spangler], prisoner, was brought from Old Capitol by Capt. Potts, order of Col. Ingraham, last night, and is confined as directed. . .' Refers to the capture of a suspected conspirator of John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Title: Contemporary copy of telegram of Montgomery, Navy Yard, Washington, to Hon. Secretary of the Navy [Gideon Welles], Navy Dept., April 24, 1865 . 24 April 1865. Montgomery, John Berrien, 1794-

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