Title: Lt. Edward P. Doherty Description: Lt. Edward P. Doherty (1840-April 3, 1897), U.S. Army commander of a detachment of the Sixteenth New York Cavalry which made the arrests at a tobacco farm at Port Tobacco, Virginia, on April 26, 1865 of two of the conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (February 25, 1809-April 15, 1865), sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865); arrested were American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865), who had shot the president on April 14, 1865, and David Herold (June 16, 1842-July 7, 1865), a feeble-minded former drug store clerk with the mental age of an eleven-year-old who aided Booth in his escape after the shooting; Booth was shot and killed attempting to escape the federal soldiers at the farm, while Herold was captured and later tried and hanged; Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: assassinations, farms, presidents of the U.S., tobacco farms, U.S. presidents. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1200 x 1485 (1.78 MPixels) (1.24) Print Size: 10.2 x 12.6 cm; 4.0 x 5.0 inches File Size: 5.12 MB (5,373,392 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530679 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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