The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . re removed a tumor from Boothsneck, readily found the scar. His body was fully identi-fied by his initials on his arm in India ink, and by thepersonal recognitions of those who knew him Barnes, with an assistant, cut fromBooths neck a section of the spine through which the ballpassed, and this was the only mutilation of the body thatoccurred. On the 27th Colonel Baker received instruc-tions from the Secretary of War to make a secret burialof Booth. At the same d
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln : flight, pursuit, capture, and punishment of the conspirators . re removed a tumor from Boothsneck, readily found the scar. His body was fully identi-fied by his initials on his arm in India ink, and by thepersonal recognitions of those who knew him Barnes, with an assistant, cut fromBooths neck a section of the spine through which the ballpassed, and this was the only mutilation of the body thatoccurred. On the 27th Colonel Baker received instruc-tions from the Secretary of War to make a secret burialof Booth. At the same day Colonel Baker quietlytook the body away, leaving the officers at the XavyYard astonished at its sudden departure. The com-mandant called for an explanation from the marine of-ficer, but he only reported that the body was so sud-denly and unexpectedly removed to the boat which con-veyed it away that he had no opportunity of reporting be-fore the work was accomplished. He said: This un-usual transaction deprived me of the opportunity of in-closing the body in a box prepared for it, as ordered by. CAPTURE OF BOOTH AND HEROLD. 83 the Department. The box is now on board the Montmik,and ready for deHvery when called for. Colonel Baker,with the assistance of Lieutenant L. B. Baker and sailorsto row the boat, took the body down the Eastern Branch,and around to the landing- on the west side of the Arse-nal grounds, into the old penitentiary. The lowerground-floor cells of that building were filled with fixedammunition, stored there by the Ordnance of the largest of these cells was cleared of ammuni-tion, a large flat stone lifted from its place, and a gravedug, the body being placed in a pine gun box. It wasthen lowered in and the grave filled up, the stone re-placed, and the body rested, known to but a few persons,until February, 1869, when President Andrew Johnsongave Edwin Booth permission to have it removed toBaltimore. When Mrs. Surratt was arrested she was taken
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