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Collection Reference Number GLC07747.01
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865 
Title Edward P. Doherty to Lorenzo P. Thomas re: four accounts of capture of Herold and death of Booth
Date 29 May 1865
Author Doherty, Edward P. (fl. 1865)  
Recipient Thomas, Lorenzo  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Forney, a pro-slavery candidate, was "in favor of the maintenance and faithful execution of the fugitive slave laws...and of the suppression of all further agitation of the slavery question."
Subjects President  Assassination  Lincoln Assassination  Death  Prisoner    
People Doherty, Edward P. (fl. 1865)  
Place written Washington, D.C.
Theme The American Civil War; The Presidency
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945