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At the end of April 1865, with the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth in full swing, soldiers and detectives roaming across Maryland and Virginia with photographs of Booth and his accomplice David

Harold. Asking for any information, some reliable intelligence was received that the two

men had recently crossed the Potomac and could be found in Virginia.

A cavalry force was mustered and embarked by steamer.

Upon arrival, one officer in their party, a Colonel Conger, went door-to-door, pretending himself to be a Confederate and making inquiries. Another officer with

the unit, Lieutenant Baker, spoke with one villager who recognized Booth and Harold by their

photographs, though he said that when he had seen them, Booth had shaved his distinctive mustache.

He said that the two men had crossed the Potomac by ferry with

Confederate horsemen the day previous. With this villager as their guide, they made their

way to the same crossing, whereupon they encountered some of those same Confederate horsemen,

who fled at the sight of the cavalry. After running them down and taking

them into custody, the horsemen led them to another member of their party, Willie Jett, whom

the investigators found in a hotel bed, awakening him and interrogating him. Jet admitted

to having led Booth and Herald to a farm in Port Royal, owned by one Richard

Garrett. Upon arriving, they found Garrett uncooperative, saying the men had gone and that

he never helped them. But when they began to threaten the farmer, his son, Jack, a boy of 15, told the soldiers that the

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