Herold, David Edgar

Life Span
to
    Full name
    David Edgar Herold
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    Family
    Adam George Herold (father), Mary Ann Porter (mother)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Gonzaga College; Georgetown College
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Date Event
    Fugitive John Wilkes Booth rides into Maryland and reaches the farm of Dr. Samuel Mudd at four a.m.
    John Wilkes Booth and David Herold continue their flight across Maryland then hide in a remote thicket
    - John Wilkes Booth and David Herold are hiding from their pursuers in a remote Maryland pine thicket
    At the War Department, Secretary Stanton announced large rewards for the capture of the Lincoln conspirators
    John Wilkes Booth is trapped in a Virginia barn, is shot, and dies of his wound just before dawn
    In Washington, John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters are transferred to the Old Penitentiary for trial
    In Washington, President Johnson orders a military trial for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters
    In Washington, the officers of the military court for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters are named
    In Washington, membership of the military court for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters is adjusted
    In Washington, the accused Lincoln Assassination plotters all plead not guilty before their military court
    In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial begins
    - In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial continues
    In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial concludes
    - In Washington's Old Penitentiary, final arguments are being made in the Lincoln conspiracy trial
    In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the Commission in the Lincoln conspiracy trial begin their deliberations
    In Washington, President Andrew Johnson approves the sentences passed down to the Lincoln conspirators
    In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the Lincoln conspirators are told their fate in their cells
    Four condemned Lincoln assassination conspirators, including Mary Surratt, are executed in Washington, D.C.
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