Colonel Everton J. Conger and Lincoln's Assassin

Ohio's Yesterdays: Colonel Everton J. Conger and Lincoln's Assassin:

"In the early morning hours of April 27, 1865, Colonel Everton J. Conger, a Secret Service agent, raced through the streets of Washington, D. C., heading for the War Department to report the capture and death of John Wilkes Booth. A relieved and grateful Secretary of War Edwin Stanton announced to a grieving nation that President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin was dead."