As Booth began his bold escape, the fate of Abraham Lincoln was unknown. According to “Abraham,” Charles Leale heard the pistol fire and Mary’s scream, so the twenty-three year old doctor sprinted towards the wounded President . When Leale reached Lincoln, the young doctor saw the physical condition of the President. “He found the president slumped in his chair, paralyzed and struggling to breath” (History.com). “Assassination” states that the doctor reacted quickly by ripping the President’s shirt open for a physical examination, but Leale could not find the bullet wound. With that diagnosis, the focus shifted from saving the President to moving him out of Ford’s Theater (2009). “Abraham” states that Lincoln was transported to a home across the street and placed in …show more content…
“Assassin” implies that John Surratt, a Confederate courier and spy, was one of the more important co-conspirators involved in Booth’s plan. “Without John Surratt, Booth couldn’t have organized the conspiracy” (2009). Indeed, Surratt connected Booth with other Confederate agents. Two of these agents, George Atzerodt and David Herold, would later become co-conspirators with Booth and Surratt. George Atzerodt was a twenty-nine-year-old that transported Confederate agents across the waterways of Southern Maryland. David Herold was only twenty-two years old. Though Herold was dull-witted, he knew the back roads that would serve as the co-conspirators escape route. Other members of the conspiracy included Lewis Powell, Samuel Arnold, Mike O’Laughlen, and Mary Surratt. Lewis Powell, described as tall and powerful, would act as the co-conspirator’s muscle. Samuel Arnold and Mike O’Laughlen were both ex-confederate soldiers and childhood friends of Booth (2009). “Co-Conspirators” mentions that Mary Surratt, John Surratt’s mother, owned a boarding house where the co-conspirators held meetings