fully set forth the reasons for our proceedings. he or the government. tom hanks: the first of booth s two journal entries ends there. he is interrupted by thomas jones, samuel cox s foster brother. cox has asked jones to see to it that booth gets across the potomac to virginia. in spite of the $100,000 bounty being offered, jones keeps booth and herold hidden and fed while government troops occupy and sweep through the region. later, jones will claim that booth s singular
fully set forth the reasons for our proceedings. he or the government. tom hanks: the first of booth s two journal entries ends there. he is interrupted by thomas jones, samuel cox s foster brother. cox has asked jones to see to it that booth gets across the potomac to virginia. in spite of the $100,000 bounty being offered, jones keeps booth and herold hidden and fed while government troops occupy and sweep through the region. later, jones will claim that booth s singular
fully set forth the reasons for our proceedings. he or the government. tom hanks: the first of booth s two journal entries ends there. he is interrupted by thomas jones, samuel cox s foster brother. cox has asked jones to see to it that booth gets across the potomac to virginia. in spite of the $100,000 bounty being offered, jones keeps booth and herold hidden and fed while government troops occupy and sweep through the region. later, jones will claim that booth s singular
inauguration day. i could have. i was that close. now, if the south is to be aided at all, it must be done quickly and it may already be too late. gentlemen, when caesar conquered the enemy of rome and the powers that were his brutus arose and slew him. trouble? not at all. i stand with brutus. lincoln might have remained in virginia on the battlefront with general grant, he might even have been present to witness robert e. lee s surrender on april 9th, but as fate would have it, secretary of state william seward and his son frederick are victims of a
cemetery in springfield, illinois. after one failed attempt, in the early morning hours of april 23rd, that john wilkes booth and david herold finally cross the potomac and land in virginia. as he writes in his diary, with every man s hand against me for doing what brutus was honored for, looked upon as a common cutthroat, abandoned with the cursive cane upon me. and on april 24th booth and herold arrive at the farm of richard garrett. booth presents himself as james w. boyd, a confederate soldier wounded at the battle of petersburg. and the family takes them in. but the very next day, booth is writing in his diary when word comes that union calvary are