"As the barn fire roared higher and higher, [Lt. Edward] Doherty, [Lt. Everton] Conger, and [Lt. Luther] Baker pulled the fatally wounded man free. 'Tell mother I die for my country,' Booth whispered in Conger's ear. They carried him up to the porch of Garrett's house, still alive but paralyzed his hands 'useless' now, he said, 'useless.' They gave him water to drink, turned him on his side three times, emptied out the contents of his pockets, and listened to him
beg to be killed mercifully."
Booth got off easy, pithed like a laboratory frog. Many of his fellow assassins and conspirators didn't fare as well.
Booth's originally intact diary after Edwin Stanton got done with it.
Pics of Booth's ladies removed from his diary. The New York Daily Tribune, April 24, 1865, reported: "Assassin's Coat Found ... A detective of the War Department returned from Virginia Sunday night with an ulsterette belonging to the assassin.... in the pockets were his personal papers." The glass plates of the women's photos, prepared at the Army Medical Museum photo laboratory and each with Dr. Edward Curtis's initials and the telltale date plainly visible.
John Wilkes.