The Men Hunted
This person traveled with Booth throughout most of the escape after Lincoln’s assassination.
Who is David Herold?
This group searched farms, woods, and towns for Booth.
Who are Union soldiers/Stanton's men?
Because Booth injured his leg while escaping Ford’s Theatre, he needed medical help from this person.
Who is Dr. Samuel Mudd?
This character’s actions show loyalty to Booth during the escape.
Who is David Herold?
This word means taken away by authority or the government.
What is confiscated?
Booth hid in this type of area while avoiding soldiers.
What is a swamp, woods, or thicket?
This Secretary of War organized the nationwide search for Booth.
Who is Edwin Stanton?
Because Dr. Mudd described a suspicious man with a broken leg, Union soldiers were able to connect Booth to this location.
What is Mudd’s farm (or Dr. Mudd’s house)?
The large number of soldiers searching for Booth suggests this about Lincoln’s assassination.
What is it was considered a very serious crime?
This word describes a person who dies for a cause or belief.
What is martyr?
This man helped Booth hide and cross the Potomac River.
Who is Thomas A. Jones?
This man made the decision to shoot Booth without a clear instruction to do so.
Who is Boston Corbett?
Because Willie Jett revealed Booth’s location to Union soldiers, the manhunt ended with this major event at Garrett’s Farm.
What is Booth being surrounded and killed by Union soldiers (Corbett)?
Edwin Stanton’s actions during the manhunt suggest this about his character.
What is he was determined to capture Booth?
This word describes something extremely evil or shocking.
What is heinous?
This co-conspirator joking confessed to playing a larger role in the events surrounding Lincoln's assassination and got himself caught.
Who is George Atzerodt?
This detective followed clues and helped track Booth during the manhunt.
Who is Lafayette Baker?
John Garrett became suspicious that Booth was Lincoln's assassin.
What is Booth panicked at the sight of approaching riders?
The fact that Booth continued accepting help from Confederate sympathizers suggests this belief.
What is Booth believed people would continue protecting and supporting him in the south?
This word means difficult to defeat or overcome.
What is formidable?
This farmer became suspicious of Booth after Booth panicked at the sight of approaching riders.
Who is John Garrett?
This man helped Union soldiers learn where Booth was hiding near Garrett’s Farm.
Who is Willie Jett?
Because Samuel Mudd helped Booth after the assassination, he was imprisoned but later released early after this event in prison.
What is Mudd helped treat prisoners during a deadly illness outbreak?
Booth’s refusal to surrender, even when surrounded by Union soldiers at Garrett’s Farm, helps develop this idea about his character.
What is Booth was stubborn, desperate, and committed to his beliefs until the end?
This word describes a large-scale search used to capture a criminal.
What is dragnet?