The Conspiracy between the Union Army and John Wilkes Booth to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

About the Book

April 26, 1865, 2:45 A.M.: Lt. Col. Everton Conger, United States Army is intently watching the man inside Richard Garrett's burning barn. He watched the man throw his weapon down and start walking to the front of the barn to surrender to the 16th New York Cavalry. A shot rang out and the unarmed man fell to the ground, mortally wounded. Lt. Luther Baker and some enlisted men entered the barn and carried the man to the veranda of Richard Garretts house. Col. Conger stayed there ten minutes emptying the mans pockets before leaving for Washington.The man had in the meantime died. The corpse was then taken to the U.S.S. Montauk, where an autopsy was performed and then the body buried in one of the old cells on the grounds of Washington's penitentiary which was now an arsenal. The bullet track and cervical vertebrae were removed at autopsy and taken to the Army Medical Museum and remain today in the National Museum of Health and Medicine. The forensic evidence from the specimen proves that Sgt. Boston Corbett could not possibly have been the shooter.

About the Author

Captain Robert Arnold is a retired Naval Surgeon who was an Instructor in Advanced Trauma Life Support for the Department of Defense.He also was a member of Fleet Surgical Team Four, and has had several deployments ranging from the Arctic Circle to the Indian Ocean. While a civilian, Captain Arnold practiced General Surgery and was the Assistant Coroner for Jefferson County for five years. He has utilized these experiences and the actual witness statements in the National Archives instead of newspaper accounts of the day, which had to be approved by Joseph Holt prior to publication, to reconstruct the events around the assassination of President Lincoln and the escape of John Wilkes Booth and this narrative is significantly different than previously published accounts. He is now retired and resides in Louisville, Ky. with Betty his wife of 60 years.