Image of newspaper article, <i>Alexandria Gazette</i>, November 11, 1865Photograph of Booth Pursuers Monument at Alexandria National Cemetery
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A monument has been erected,” Alexandria Gazette, November 11, 1865, 3, Library of Congress.

"Booth Pursuers Monument," Photograph, Alexandria National Cemetery, 2018, RRCHNM.

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A monument has been erected in the Soldier's Cemetery in this place, by members of the Government Steam Engine Company, over those of their company, who were lost from the steamer Black Diamond, near Blackistone’s Island, in the Potomac, last April.

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In Memory
of
Peter Carroll
Samuel N. Gosnell
Geo. W. Huntington
Christopher Farley
who lost their lives April 24, 1865
while in pursuit of Booth the assassin
of our beloved President
Abraham Lincoln.

  • Image of newspaper article, <i>Alexandria Gazette</i>, November 11, 1865
  • Photograph of Booth Pursuers Monument at Alexandria National Cemetery

Memorial

Members of the Government Steam Engine Company placed a wooden monument to their fellow members who had been killed in pursuit of Booth just a few months after their deaths. The U.S. government placed a more permanent monument there on July 7, 1922, the same year the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated.

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