The Conspiracy Between the Union Army and John Wilkes Booth to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

The Conspiracy Between the Union Army and John Wilkes Booth to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

Author: Robert E. Arnold (Retired naval surgeon)

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781503556362

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April 26, 1865, 2:45 A.M.: Lt. Col. Everton Conger, United States Army is intently watching the man inside Richard Garrett's burning barn. He watched the man throw his weapon down and start walking to the front of the barn to surrender to the 16th New York Cavalry. A shot rang out and the unarmed man fell to the ground, mortally wounded. Lt. Luther Baker and some enlisted men entered the barn and carried the man to the veranda of Richard Garretts house. Col. Conger stayed there ten minutes emptying the mans pockets before leaving for Washington.The man had in the meantime died. The corpse was then taken to the U.S.S. Montauk, where an autopsy was performed and then the body buried in one of the old cells on the grounds of Washington's penitentiary which was now an arsenal. The bullet track and cervical vertebrae were removed at autopsy and taken to the Army Medical Museum and remain today in the National Museum of Health and Medicine. The forensic evidence from the specimen proves that Sgt. Boston Corbett could not possibly have been the shooter.


The Conspiracy Between the Union Army and John Wilkes Booth to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

The Conspiracy Between the Union Army and John Wilkes Booth to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

Author: Robert E Arnold

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781622879328

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The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is one of the most significant occurrences in the history of the United Sates and an enduring subject of interest and study. One reason for the interest is the aura of controversy surrounding much of the story as presented. There was never any question as to who shot Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth had made certain that the entire world knew that he was the assassin. The only question was, did he have help? One theory was that the act was a crazy plot by a few renegades to restart the war. Another theory was that the Confederate Secret Service had assisted Booth. A third theory was that the Union army, with the help of Lafayette Baker and Edwin Stanton, was also involved. After reading the evidence in the National Archives, there can be little doubt that the betrayal of Abraham Lincoln involved all of the above. This book relies entirely on primary sources, United States Archives and Official Records and shows that there was a conspiracy with the Union Army and various others to aid Booth in assassinating Lincoln. This book traces the assassination from Ford's Theater, the escape and killing of the man purportedly Booth, trial, execution and aftermath. Captain Robert Arnold is a retired Naval Officer who was an Instructor in Advanced Trauma Life Support for the Department of defense. He was also a member of Fleet Surgical Team Four, and has had several deployments ranging from the Arctic Circle to the Indian Ocean. While a civilian, Captain Arnold practiced General Surgery and was the Assistant Coroner for Jefferson County for five years. He has utilized these experiences and the actual witness statements in the National Archives instead of the frequently used newspaper accounts of the day to reconstruct the events concerning the assassination of President Lincoln and the escape of John Wilkes Booth. This account is significantly different than previously published accounts. Capt. Arnold is now retired and resides in Louisville, Ky. with Betty, his wife of 60 years. Keywords: Lincoln, Booth, Herold, Stanton, Baker, Conspiracy, Assassination, Trial, Execution, Ford, John Wilkes, Abraham, Maryland, Washington DC


The Conspiracy Between John Wilkes Booth and the Union Army to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

The Conspiracy Between John Wilkes Booth and the Union Army to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

Author: Robert Arnold

Publisher: Robert Arnold

Published: 2016-07-18

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781622176670

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April 26, 1865, 2:45 A.M.: Lt. Col. Everton Conger, United States Army, intently watched the man inside Richard Garrett's burning barn. He watched as the man threw down his weapon to surrender to the 16th New York Cavalry. A shot rang out and the unarmed man fell to the ground. Lt. Luther Baker and some enlisted men entered the barn and carried the man to the veranda of Richard Garrett's house. Col. Conger stayed there for ten minutes emptying the man's pockets before leaving for Washington. The man, in the meantime, had died. Lt. Edward Doherty, commanding officer of the Sixteenth United States Cavalry had a huge problem. The dead man did not look like John Wilkes Booth. Doherty had the task of getting the body to Washington for identification and then of disposing of it. The trick was to do so without arousing the suspicions of the citizens who were desperately awaiting news about the man who killed President Lincoln. This is the story of the assassination whose perpetrators were hidden for 150 years. The meticulous preparations of the conspirators are brought to light by the documents and evidence that was collected at the time, but obscured from public view in the national archives.


The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth

The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth

Author: Finis L. Bates

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1429011017

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The author claims that John Wilkes Booth was not killed at the Garrett house in Virginia in 1865, but that he was living under name of John St. Helen at Glenrose Mills, Tex., 1872-1877, and committed suicide at Enid, Okla., in 1903 as David E. George.


Dark Union

Dark Union

Author: Leonard F. Guttridge

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 2003-08-18

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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The real truth behind the assassination of our 16th president


The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies

The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies

Author: William Hanchett

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1989-01-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780252013614

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Examines the many theories that have led to speculation that Lincoln's assassination was a conspiracy.


American Brutus

American Brutus

Author: Michael W. Kauffman

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0307430618

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It is a tale as familiar as our history primers: A deranged actor, John Wilkes Booth, killed Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre, escaped on foot, and eluded capture for twelve days until he met his fiery end in a Virginia tobacco barn. In the national hysteria that followed, eight others were arrested and tried; four of those were executed, four imprisoned. Therein lie all the classic elements of a great thriller. But the untold tale is even more fascinating. Now, in American Brutus, Michael W. Kauffman, one of the foremost Lincoln assassination authorities, takes familiar history to a deeper level, offering an unprecedented, authoritative account of the Lincoln murder conspiracy. Working from a staggering array of archival sources and new research, Kauffman sheds new light on the background and motives of John Wilkes Booth, the mechanics of his plot to topple the Union government, and the trials and fates of the conspirators. Piece by piece, Kauffman explains and corrects common misperceptions and analyzes the political motivation behind Booth’s plan to unseat Lincoln, in whom the assassin saw a treacherous autocrat, “an American Caesar.” In preparing his study, Kauffman spared no effort getting at the truth: He even lived in Booth’s house, and re-created key parts of Booth’s escape. Thanks to Kauffman’s discoveries, readers will have a new understanding of this defining event in our nation’s history, and they will come to see how public sentiment about Booth at the time of the assassination and ever since has made an accurate account of his actions and motives next to impossible–until now. In nearly 140 years there has been an overwhelming body of literature on the Lincoln assassination, much of it incomplete and oftentimes contradictory. In American Brutus, Kauffman finally makes sense of an incident whose causes and effects reverberate to this day. Provocative, absorbing, utterly cogent, at times controversial, this will become the definitive text on a watershed event in American history.


Our American Cousin

Our American Cousin

Author: Tom Taylor

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2023-06-25

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13:

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Our American Cousin is a three-act play written by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play opened in London in 1858 but quickly made its way to the U.S. and premiered at Laura Keene’s Theatre in New York City later that year. It remained popular in the U.S. and England for the next several decades. Its most notable claim to fame, however, is that it was the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was watching on April 14, 1865 when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, who used his knowledge of the script to shoot Lincoln during a more raucous scene. The play is a classic Victorian farce with a whole range of stereotyped characters, business, and many entrances and exits. The plot features a boorish but honest American cousin who travels to the aristocratic English countryside to claim his inheritance, and then quickly becomes swept up in the family’s affairs. An inevitable rescue of the family’s fortunes and of the various damsels in distress ensues. Our American Cousin was originally written as a farce for an English audience, with the laughs coming mostly at the expense of the naive American character. But after it moved to the U.S. it was eventually recast as a comedy where English caricatures like the pompous Lord Dundreary soon became the primary source of hilarity. This early version, published in 1869, contains fewer of that character’s nonsensical adages, which soon came to be known as “Dundrearyisms,” and for which the play eventually gained much of its popular appeal.


They Wanted Lincoln Dead

They Wanted Lincoln Dead

Author: Troy Cowan

Publisher:

Published: 2017-04-19

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 9781521091906

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Edwin Stanton and Andrew Johnson planned Lincoln's assassination. One failed and the other was successful.