Where did Booth hide before he was found by Union soldiers?
A farm in Northern Virginia
A warehouse in Southern Maryland
A cave in Pennsylvania
At his house in Washington, D.C.
Answer
After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, he fled to the farm of Samuel Mudd in Charles County, Maryland. Mudd treated Booth's broken leg and then helped him escape to Virginia. Booth hid in a barn on the farm of Richard Garrett, where he was found by Union soldiers on April 26. Booth was shot and killed while attempting to escape.
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