The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-05-04

was sent to the vicinity of Culpepper,
where they were hemmed in by Ker-
shaws brigade, and all com pelled to
surrender except Corbett, who stood
out manfully, and fired his revolver,
and twelve shots from his breach load
ing rifle at his assailants before sur
rendering, which he did after firing
his last round Of ammunition. lie
was taken to Lynchburg, and thence to
Andersonville, where he experienced
the same treatment that others have
so numerously testified to. Out OF
fourteen members Of his company fell
low-captives, but ono beside himself
returned. Upon one occasion he made
his escape, but was tracked by blood
hounds and returned to captivity.
When exchanged, he was skeleton,
but now appears to have gained his
regular weight and health.
Booth had two crutches in the barn.
When Lieut.. Dougherty started to
return with the then dead and living
prisoners, Harold rofuscd to walk,
when n rope was fastened around his
neck and the other end to the saddle
of one of tho cavalrymen. AS soon
as horse could be procured, he was
Iplaced upon it and brought up to this
lefty in irons. Lieut.. Doughcrty, who
commanded the party which captured
Booth and Harold, was formerly of
Boston, Massachusetts,. lie is o gal
liant officer, full of energy and pluck.
In the first Bull Run battle he be-
longed to the list infantry. He sub
ssequently participated in many of the
battles Of the war, in all of which be
was remarkable for his courageous
conduct. lie was, some time ago
much extoled by the press FOR his gal.
Iantry in conducting a reconnaissance
at the head Of a detachment of the 10th
New York cavalry, in which he ran
into and cut his way through di-
vision ofrcbcl cavalry near Culpepper
Court House. Virginia.
The following additional details are
from the Extra Republican. zone OF
the detectives stood in the barn where
he was found, an hour and q half
parleying with Booth to induce him to
surrender, All this time the assassin
sat with knifo pointed at his heart
in one hand, and revolver with the
muzzle directed against his head in
the other hand, and swearing that he
would never be taken alive; that he
would blow his own brains out if they
approached him. 1t is stated that
Booths horse fell with him on the
morning Of the 18th inst, at about
the very time the President died: He
broke his leg below the knee. Har-
rold assisted Booth in reaching the
house Of Pr. Nudge, at Bryan, on the
DAD to the Patuxent River. lie was
known to be all right on the secesh
question. He dressed the wound, af
ter cutting the boot from Booths leg
and then directed Booth to the swamp
where he sccrcted himself until Sun
day night last when he and Harold
reached Port Tobacco, and crossed the
Potomac river in canoe, in hope of
reaching guerrilla party near Port
Royal DR.. Nudge was arrested some
days ago, and the boot taken from
Booths !eg was found in his house.
Both are now in this city.
Upon the person of Booth were found
bills of exchange on a bank in Canada,
dated in October last, at the time Booth
was there, showing that the assassin
alton was planned by the rebols in
Canada. Booth said to Lieutenant
Dougherty: You have spoiled my
Mexican business" evidently refer
ring to his plans OF escape to Mexico.
BENEFIT OF BOOTHS DEATH.
The general regret that Booth was
not taken alive, and the general dis.
position to complain that he might
have been, il combined rush by the
twenty eight men surrounding him
had been made, are tempered among
tho more judicious by tho reflection |
that if he had been saved and made
Judicial victim, many others scarcely |
less guilty would have escaped with
comparatively light punishment
ATTEMPTS TO SCREEN BOOTH.
To the very full particulars of the
pursuit and capture already forwarded |
it need only bo added that the Gov
ernmcnt was IN constant receipt OF
letters from dozen different points,
attempting to draw off attention and
mislead tho detectives. Quite a mum.
Der of these came from Philadelphia
others wcro from New York. Some
were in ladies handwriting, and near
ly all were believed here to indicate q
desire to confuse the Government and
aid tho escape of the criminal.
Narrative OF Lieut.. Doughorty's Opera
hons---isooth's HOdy ut the WASH
ington Navy Yard.
WASHINGTON, April 81.
Late yesterday afternoon intcll-
gence was received here that j. w.
Booth, tho murderer of President Lin
coin, had been overtakon by party
sent out by Col. j.. G. Baker, Special
Detective of tho War Department,
and mortally wounded in an attempt
to capture him. The restriction or
der Of tho War Department, which
prohibits anything in regard to ar
rests or investigations concerning the
from being sent by tele-
graph, prevented the transmission of