John C. Howard's stable

John C. Howard's stable

Washington, District of Columbia.  John C. Howard's Livery Stable on G Street between 6th and 7th.  Lincoln Assassin John Wilkes Booth used horses from the stable, Co-conspirator John Surratt kept horses here before leaving town on April 1st, 1865.

Photo created and published April 1865.

Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0822

Links:

• http://highbridgebattlefieldmuseum.com/civil_war_horse
   
• http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/Livery-Stable.htm
   
• Read about the Trial of John H. Surratt for the assassination of President Lincoln  here.

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