USS Montauk (1862)
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The first USS Montauk was a single-turreted Passaic-class monitor in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
USS Montauk (left) alongside USS Lehigh in Philadelphia Navy Yard, circa 1902.
Montauk destroys Rattlesnake
Montauk beached for repair
George Cook, half stereo of Federal ironclads Weehawken, Montauk and Passaic firing on Fort Moultrie, Sept 8, 1863 (click to enlarge) - The Valentine, Richmond, Va.
John Wilkes Booth
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John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. During the American Civil War he served
USS Montauk (1862)
…used as the floating prison for the conspirators in the Abraham Lincoln assassination and was the site of the autopsy and identification of assassin John Wilkes Booth. Montauk was built by John Ericsson at Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint, Brooklyn; launched on October 9, 1862; and commissioned at New York on…
Booth, c. 1865
Tudor Hall in 1865
The Richmond Theatre, Richmond, Virginia in 1858, when Booth, who had started acting in 1855, made his first stage appearance there in the repertory company
A carte de visite of John Wilkes Booth