MD -- Bel Alton -- Thicket area (where Booth hid):
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- THICK_151012_02.JPG: John Wilkes Booth and David Herold
John Wilkes Booth and David Herold remained hidden from April 16 to 21, 1865 in a nearby pine thicket, while Union troops searched for them. Thomas A. Jones brought them food and the newspapers.
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"the instrument of his punishment"
-- John Wilkes Booth – Escape of an Assassin --
After assassinating President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice, David A. Herold, fled Washington for Southern Maryland, a hotbed of Confederate sympathizers. After leaving the home of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd near Bryantown, Booth found a guide who brought them to the home of Samuel Cox in the early morning hours of April 16. After some negotiating, Cox agreed to place them in the care of friends in the Confederate underground. He sent them to a dense growth of pines a mile west of his house and enlisted his foster brother, Thomas A. Jones, to help them reach the Potomac River, two miles farther west, over which they could cross into Virginia. For several days, Jones' and Cox's overseer, Franklin Robey, brought food and newspapers to the fugitives as they waited for a chance to continue their journey south. Booth learned from the newspapers how strongly the world condemned the assassination. Shocked, he tried to justify his act by writing of Lincoln in his pocket diary, "Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made me the instrument of his punishment." On April 20, Jones saw an opportunity to get his charges to the Potomac. After dusk, he led them southwest, past his own home near Dent's Meadow, and down to the river.
- THICK_151012_24.JPG: Rich Hill, home of Samuel Cox
- THICK_151012_27.JPG: Page of Booth's diary justifying the assassination of President Lincoln
- THICK_151021_20.JPG: It had been some years since I'd seen this sign. It used to be readable. The text says:
"In 1864, John Wilkes Booth, David Herold, along with Thomas A. Jones, may have stopped in this once tavern for a brief and friendly hand of cards before fleeing into nearby woods."
- THICK_151021_61.JPG: The former Collins House is located at 9185 Wills Street
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