When John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln and leaped from Ford’s Theatre’s presidential box to the stage, he began a 12-day odyssey which took him from Washington, D.C. through Prince George’s County, Southern Maryland and Tidewater Virginia before he was eventually captured and killed by law enforcement officers in a barn near the town of Port Royal, Va.
Booth’s plan to fracture the Union government and cause chaos in the north was only...
