From April 14 to April 26, 1865, the hunt for
John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices transfixed a nation reeling from the horrors of the newly ended Civil War.
Manhunt takes readers on the intensive search that moves side-by-side with the desperate
assassin from the streets of Washington, D.C., through the swamps of Maryland, and into the forests of Virginia.
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Background Information
John Wilkes Booth would be scarce remembered for his modest acting career but earned undying infamy by his assassination of Abraham Lincoln. With the Civil War drawing to a close, President Lincoln was shot to death by John Wilkes Booth as he watched a play at Ford's Theater in Washington DC.
