. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . War Department. Tothe shrewdest spy would have found diffi- this handbill minute descriptions of IJoothculty in creeping through them without and the unknown person who attemptedbeing captured. But at that late hour it the assassination of Secretary Seward were was all to no purpose; Booth was milesaway. In this emergency, appended. Hardly had the bills been posted when the United States (lovern- Secretarv of War ment authorized the publication of addi- Stanton turned to the national secret ser- tional rewards to the amount of ij. 100,000vic
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . War Department. Tothe shrewdest spy would have found diffi- this handbill minute descriptions of IJoothculty in creeping through them without and the unknown person who attemptedbeing captured. But at that late hour it the assassination of Secretary Seward were was all to no purpose; Booth was milesaway. In this emergency, appended. Hardly had the bills been posted when the United States (lovern- Secretarv of War ment authorized the publication of addi- Stanton turned to the national secret ser- tional rewards to the amount of ij. 100,000vice bureau, abranch of the de-partment which wasunder his immedi-ate direction andcontrol. ColonelLafayette C. Baker(afterwards Gener-al), its chief, was inNew York citymaking plans forthe capture of aband of bounty-jumpers then oper-ating in the Stanton tele-graphed him in thefollowing words: April IS, 3 L. C. Baker:Come here immedi-ately and see if you canfind the murderer of thePresident. Edwin M. Stanton,Secretary of IVar. i. for the capture ofBooth, Siirratt, andHerold, Surratt atthat time being sus-pected of directcomplicity in theassassination . fIhree States in-creased this sum by * FoIlowinR is a copy ofthe reward handbill issuedby Colonel Haker—the firstto be sent out: $io,ooo Reward. Description of JOHN WILKES BOOTH, Who assassinated thePRESIDENT on theevening of April i4lh. BlCKSKIN. LIEUTENANT B. rsAKER AND HIS HOKSE From a photograph taken in i8Si. This was the horseridden by Lieutenant Baker in the pursuit of Booth. Hisbody is now mounted and preserved in the Museum of theMichigan Agricultural College. Early the nextmorning Colonel Baker reached Washing-ton. He was accompanied by his cousin,Lieutenant L. B. Baker, a member of thebureau, who recently had been mustered out of the First District of Columbia Cav- upperlip^prutruded when he talked-, chin pointed and , ue rilbL l^ls,Lllc u pl-iminent- head medium si/e; neck short . of mediu
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