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(Wednesday, April 26, 1865, approximately 3:15 a.m. local time; during the American Civil War) — John Wilkes Booth, the 26-year-old assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, died this morning about five hours after the men of the 16th New York Cavalry surrounded the tobacco barn he was sleeping in at Richard H. Garrett’s farm, just south of Port Royal, Caroline County, Virginia.

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Booth had been shot in the neck by a soldier after he had refused to surrender and the barn was set on fire. He was carried to the porch of the farmhouse, where he died around 7:22 a.m.

As he lay dying, Booth looked at his hands and supposedly gasped, “Useless, useless.”