. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . om where his flightbegan. The gun box was set on trestles, in thestable, and a lantern was called for; this wasthe light by which the cover was pried oft thebox, the gray army blankets lifted, and the re-mains disclosed. In the next room sat thegreat Hamlet, his brother Edwin, waiting. FATE OF assassins accomplicp:sThe identification being satisfactory—aidedby the dentist who had filled John Boothsteeth—the body, in a new casket, was sent toBaltimore that night and the following dayinterred in the family plot at Greenmount,where it lies bene


. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . om where his flightbegan. The gun box was set on trestles, in thestable, and a lantern was called for; this wasthe light by which the cover was pried oft thebox, the gray army blankets lifted, and the re-mains disclosed. In the next room sat thegreat Hamlet, his brother Edwin, waiting. FATE OF assassins accomplicp:sThe identification being satisfactory—aidedby the dentist who had filled John Boothsteeth—the body, in a new casket, was sent toBaltimore that night and the following dayinterred in the family plot at Greenmount,where it lies beneath thick ivy under the eastface of the monument reared to Junius BrutusBooth by his son Edwin in 1858. The fate of all connected with Booth wassevere in the extreme: Dr. Mudd, Arnold, andOLaughlin were sentenced for life at the DryTortugas, and Sjmngler for six years. , Atzerodt, Davy Herold, and LewisPayne (who tried to assassinate Seward) weresimultaneously hanged until dead from thesame scaffold in the ])rison yard at ROM A PMOTO&i PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 68.


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