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Of the 5 or 6 other co-conspirators, only David Herold accompanied Booth on his 12 day ordeal through swamp and forest and finally to a barn and death.

Herold, several years younger than Booth, certainly got in with the wrong group. He surrendered to Union officers 12 days after their flight from Ford's Theater, Washington DC, April 14, 1865.

Herold was hung with the rest of the gang after a military trial in Washington. Buried in DC, his body was later released to his family for burial in his family's plot.

Reference:The Hunt For John Wilkes Booth by Michael W. Kauffman published 2004.

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