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Wheel from the Ironclad USS Montauk:
The ironclad Montauk served as a floating prison for all but two of the suspected conspirators. On April 27 photographer Alexander Gardner took pictures of the conspirators on board the ship: Edman Spangler, Michael O'Laughlin, David Herold, Lewiss Powell, George Atzerodt, and Samuel Arnold, as well as an unknown prisoner thought to be one "Hartman Richter."
Coincidentally, on the afternoon of April 14, 1865, President and Mrs. Lincoln took a carriage ride to the Navy Yard to tour the same ironclad, which would later hold the conspirators and serve as a makeshift laboratory for doctors conducting the autopsy of John Wilkes Booth. |