Word: cornhusk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered all exits from the capital checked again, and decided that Booth had probably got away into southern Maryland. Then, as troopers rode out along the Potomac (it took twelve days to corner and kill Booth), Stanton and Mrs. Lincoln entered the little bedroom where Lincoln lay on a cornhusk mattress. Outside, a throng of weeping people, mainly Negroes, waited in the damp street. Cavalry horses were tied four and five to a picket post along the block. Newsboys ran past, shouting: "Assassination!" At the Baltimore & Ohio terminal, all train traffic stopped as detectives searched passengers, trainmen, mail bags...
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