Mystery Picture 1: the Peyton House in Port Royal, VA

Mystery Picture 1: the Peyton House in Port Royal, VA

Mystery Picture 1: The Peyton House in Port Royal, VA. John Wilkes Booth and David Herold stopped briefly at the Peyton House looking for shelter after crossing the Rappahannock river. Mystery Picture 2: George Foster Robinson’s Congressional Medal. For saving Secretary of State William Seward’s life, Private George Robinson was presented $5,000 and a gold Congressional Medal featuring his likeness. This particular one is housed at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, IL. Mystery Picture 3: The carte-de-visite entitled, ‘Morning, Noon and Night”. Investigators discovered a photo of JWB hidden behind this CDV when searching the Surratt Boardinghouse in Washington, D.C. This copy is on display in the Surratt House Museum in Clinton, MD. Mystery Picture 4: A reproduction of the Lincoln Rocker on display at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The real rocker Lincoln was sitting in when he was shot is housed at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI. Mystery Picture 5: The Star Saloon façade outside of Ford’s Theatre. The star saloon was a tavern adjoining Ford’s run by Peter Taltavull. Booth passed a lot of anxious minutes in this tavern before shooting Lincoln. Mystery Picture 6: Junius Brutus Booth’s face sculpted onto the Booth family obelisk in Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, MD. John Wilkes is buried here with his parents and several siblings. Mystery Picture 7: John Wilkes Booth’s boot cut off by Dr. Samuel A. Mudd on display at the Ford’s Theatre Museum in Washington, D.C. While treating Booth’s broken leg, Dr. Mudd made a vertical slit on the front of the boot to remove it. Mystery Picture 8: Current sign of the former Horsehead Tavern in Baden, MD. One of the possible routes John Wilkes Booth and David Herold could have taken from the Surratt House to Dr. Mudd’s takes them by Horsehead, a tavern and hotel that Booth stayed at while scouting his escape route. The image on the sign is supposed to be a completed horse’s head. During Booth and Herold’s time, an actually dead horse’s head hung outside on a sign, marking the tavern. Mystery Picture 9: Plaque inside the courtyard of the U.S. Court of Claims building in Washington, D.C. This building was built on the same lot that once house William Seward’s house. The plaque has a drawing of the house, and talks about the Secretary’s assassination attempt by the hands of Lewis Powell. Mystery Picture 10: Page from John Wilkes Booth’s “diary” located in the Ford’s Theatre Museum. His “diary” was actually an 1864 date book/calendar that he wrote in while on the run. The first few pages provided almanac like information about 1864. Mystery Picture 11: Decorative box covered in shells created by Dr. Samuel A. Mudd. While in prison at Fort Jefferson, Dr. Mudd learned carpentry and created this box inlaid with shells. This and many other of his creations are housed at the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House in Waldorf, MD. Mystery Picture 12: Grave of William Storke Jett in Richmond, VA. Willie Jett aided the assassins across the Rappahannock River and to the Garrett farm outside of Port Royal. When the cavalry caught up with him, he revealed Booth’s location, causing his capture and death. .

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