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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Burials at Green Mount Cemetery, Burials at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Baltimore), Burials at Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Edgar Allan Poe, John Wilkes Booth, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, Francis Asbury, Joseph E. Johnston, George H. Steuart, Louis McLane, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Benjamin Huger, Isaac R. Trimble, William Henry Leonard Poe, Harriet Lane, William Henry Rinehart, E. Stanley Jones, John H. Winder, Samuel Smith, John Archibald Campbell, Edward Coote Pinkney, Jesse D. Bright, Henry Winter Davis, William Pinkney Whyte, Erastus B. Tyler, Arnold Elzey, Robert Smith, Beverly Waugh, Philip Barton Key II, James McHenry, Jesse Lee, John Emory, John Stricker, Enoch George, Lewis Henry Little, Old Saint Paul's Cemetery, Edward Raymond Ames, Stub Brown, Loudon Park Cemetery, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Robert Strawbridge, Frank Selman, Loudon Park National Cemetery, Samuel Arnold, Anthony Kennedy, Daniel Moreau Barringer, Baltimore National Cemetery, John G. Sproston, Samuel Sterett, Alexander McKim, Weiskittel-Roehle Burial Vault, James Morrison Harris, Friends Burial Ground. Excerpt: John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 - April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well known actor. He was also a Confederate sympathizer vehement in his denunciation of the Lincoln Administration and outraged by the South's defeat in the American Civil War. He strongly opposed the abolition of slavery in the United States and Lincoln's proposal to extend voting rights to recently emancipated slaves. Booth and a group of co-conspirators planned to kill Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Se...
