Samuel Mudd, the Maryland doctor who had treated Booth's broken leg after the assassination of President Lincoln, was arrested at his home near Bryantown, Maryland. Maryland detectives allowed him to go home for the weekend but then he was taken to Washington on the following Wednesday to be imprisoned at the Washington Navy Yard and charged with being an accomplice to the murder.  He was tried with the other conspirators in May and was sentenced to life in prison in Florida.  He was pardoned in February 1869 and released.  (By John Osborne)

Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, leading the hunt for the Lincoln assassination fugitives, and frustrated that John Wilkes Booth, especially, was still at large, announced the posting of substantial rewards for their capture.  Booth had a price of $50,000 put on his head, while capturing George Atzerodt or David Herold would be rewarded with $25,000.  The first reward went to a Delaware cavalry sergeant and his men, who arrested Atzerodt before dawn earlier that day.  (By John Osborne)  

George Atzerodt, the the conspirator in John Wilkes Booth ring originally assigned to murder Vice-President Johnson, fled Washington after President Lincoln's assassination.  He was captured before dawn at the home of a friend near Barnsville, Maryland, around twenty miles from the capital.  Delaware Cavalry Sergeant L.W. Gemmill who carried out the arrest, together with his six men, shared the $25,000 reward announced that same day by Secretary of War Stanton.  Atzerodt was executed on July 7, 1865. (By John Osborne)  

In a late night visit, War Department officials arrested Mary Surratt and three other women in her boarding house.  By happenstance, Lewis Powell returned to the house while the investigators were there, having been in hiding since his attack on Secretary of State Seward, and was also arrested.  Powell and Mary Surratt were imprisoned at the Washington Navy Yard, tried in May, and both executed on July 7, 1865 for their role in the murder plot.  (By John Osborne) 

Samuel Arnold became the first of  John Wilkes Booth's circle of conspirators in the Lincoln Assassination to be captured. He was held, manacled and hooded, aboard the U.S.S. Saugas.  He was tried with his companions in May and was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the original plan to kidnap Lincoln. He served his sentence in Florida until President Johnson pardoned him in 1869.  He died in 1906.  (By John Osborne) 

Michael O'Laughlin, one of John Wilkes Booth's circle of conspirators, was arrested in Baltimore at the home of a friend.  He was taken two days later to the Washington Naval Yard and held, manacled and hooded, aboard the U.S.S. Saugas.  He was tried with his co-conspirators in May and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the original Lincoln kidnap plot.  He died of yellow fever in prison in Florida in September 1867.  (By John Osborne) 

John Wilkes Booth and David Herold had continued across Maryland towards the Potomac and the home of one of David Herold's relatives.  They had reached the home of Samuel Cox in the early hours of Easter Sunday who directed them to a dense thicket two miles from the river. Herold's relative Thomas A. Jones made contact and the fugitives spent the next days in hiding until Friday night, as federal troops scoured the countryside. (By John Osborne) 

John Wilkes Booth and his accomplice David Herold had reached the farm of Dr. Samuel Mudd in the early hours the previous morning.  Mudd had set Booth's broken left tibula and allowed the two to rest for a time.  After breakfast, the two fugitives had continued across Maryland towards the Potomac and the home of one of David Herold's relatives.  They reached the home of Samuel Cox in the early hours of Easter Sunday. Cox then directed them to a dense thicket nearby where they spent the next five days in hiding. (By John Osborne)