The Sixteenth New York Cavalry, scouring the countryside for Booth and Herold, set up camp for the night. Sergeant Thomas “Boston” Corbett sat apart from the others. Lieutenant Edward Doherty, Colonel Everton Conger, and former Lieutenant Lafayette Baker, head of the National Detective Police, stretched out before a campfire, exhausted after a week of traversing dirt paths, crossing the Potomac"s inlets, and knocking on doors of Confederate sympathizers suspected of harboring Booth, all of which led to dead ends.
Conger"s patience was wearing thin and he felt like taking it out on someone. “What do we need that unhinged Corbett with us for?”
“Why? What"s wrong with him?” Doherty glanced at the lone figure, head bowed, undoubtedly in prayer again.
“Don"t you know?” Conger countered. “He"
