John Wilkes was arrested and died in 1865

You may not know, one of the interesting facts about John Wilkes Booth, he was arrested and died in 1865.

Twelve days after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm and kill him. When Mudd was implicated in the conspiracy, he received a life sentence in prison, but the sentence was later commuted. Booth sought refuge for several days at the home of Confederate agent Thomas A. Jones before boarding a boat and rowing across the Potomac to Virginia.

John Wilkes Booth's luck ran out after receiving assistance from several Confederate sympathizers. The countryside was swarming with military units looking for Booth, but few shared information due to the $20,000 reward. While staying at Richard Garrett's farm, federal troops arrived on their search but quickly rode away. Garrett let his suspicious visitors sleep in his barn, but he told his son to lock the barn from the outside to keep the strangers from stealing his horses. The Union soldiers were led back to the Garrett farm by a tip, where they discovered Booth and Herold in the barn. Booth refused to let Herold out. To flush Booth, the building was set on fire, but he was shot while still inside. He lived for three hours before dying, staring at his hands and muttering, "Useless, useless."