Follow the Trail of John Wilkes Booth
After the Lincoln assassination, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold, one of his co-conspirators, did
not find the adoration and honor they expected for ridding the country of the Yankee president who had placed Maryland
under martial law, vanquished the Confederacy, and freed the slaves.
For twelve days they lived furtively as they covered less than a hundred miles before Booth died on
the Garrett farm near Bowling Green, Virginia.
