Photo #: NH 51959
"Post-mortem Examination of Booth's Body on board the Monitor
'Montauk'."
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 13 May
1865, depicting the scene on board USS Montauk, off the
Washington Navy Yard, D.C., on 27 April 1865, as Union officers
examined the body of John Wilkes Booth. Booth had assassinated
President Abraham Lincoln of 14 April 1865.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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