The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . ld and the bodies were cut down andgiven over to a squad of soldiers, who placed them inplain pine boxes, and lowered them in the graves pre-pared for them. * In the minds of many the burial of John Wilkes Boothis yet an unsolved mystery. An illustrated paper, in itsfirst issue after his death, gave a picture of two menthrowing his body from a rowboat into the PotomacRiver. The truth of the matter is. that the body wasfirst buried in a pine gunbox in one of the cells of the * It has been said,
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . ld and the bodies were cut down andgiven over to a squad of soldiers, who placed them inplain pine boxes, and lowered them in the graves pre-pared for them. * In the minds of many the burial of John Wilkes Boothis yet an unsolved mystery. An illustrated paper, in itsfirst issue after his death, gave a picture of two menthrowing his body from a rowboat into the PotomacRiver. The truth of the matter is. that the body wasfirst buried in a pine gunbox in one of the cells of the * It has been said, and verj generally believed, that the con-spirators were all, or nearly so, Catholics: but such was not thecase. Of the ten, four were of that faith—Mrs. Surratt, her son,John H. Surratt, Dr. Mudd, and Michael OLaughliu. Mrs. Surrattwas a convert from the Protestant faith. Her husband at onetime was a member of the Episcopal Church at and Herold were Episcopalians, Pajme a Baptist and ason of a Baptist minister; Atzerodt claimed to be a Lutheran,and Arnold was a
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