Accomplice
David Herold
- Born
- 16 June 1842
- Died
- 7 July 1865, aged about 23
- Record
- Wikidata Q544341 · Wikipedia
Accomplice in The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Guided Powell to Seward's house, then rode with Booth through Maryland and Virginia; surrendered at the Garrett barn. Hanged.
1865 · Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C. · Executed
Good Friday, 1865: an actor shoots the president at Ford's Theatre, a manhunt crosses two states, and a military court hangs four conspirators. Read the case.
Dated events
Booth and Herold reach Samuel Mudd's farm before dawn and have Booth's leg set.
Cavalry trap Booth and Herold in a barn on the Garrett farm; Herold surrenders and Booth is shot and dies.
Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt are hanged at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary.