Description: Poster offering various rewards for the murderer, and his accomplices, of President Abraham Lincoln dated April 20, 1865. Poster states: War Department Washington, April 20, 1865, $100,000 REWARD THE MURDERER Of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, IS STILL AT LARGE. $50,000 REWARD Will be paid by the Department for his apprehension, in addition to any reward offered by Municipal Authorities or State Executives. $25,000 REWARD Will be paid for the apprehension of G. A. Atzerot, sometimes called "Port Tobacco," one of Booth's Accomplices. $25,000 REWARD Will be paid for the apprehension of David C. Harold, another of Booth's Accomplices. LIBERAL REWARDS will be paid for any information that shall conduce to the arrest of either of the above-named criminals, or their accomplices. All persons harboring or secreting the said persons, of either of them, or aiding or assisting their concealment or escape, will be treated a accomplices in the murder of the President and the attempted assassination of the Secretary of State, and shall be subject of trial before a Military Commission and the punishment of DEATH. Let the stain of innocent blood be removed from the land be the arrest and punishment of the murderers. All good citizens are exhorted to aid public justice on this occasion. Every man should consider his own conscience charged with this solemn duty, and rest neither night nor day until it be accomplished. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. DESCRIPTIONS.-- BOOTH is Five Feet 7 or 8 inches high, slender build, high forehead, black hair, black eyes, and wears a heavy black moustache. ATZERODT is Five Feet 6 or 7 inches high, has short curly hair, and a short thick black moustache. He had a light goatee, and his whiskers war much thinner on the side of his face. He has a dark shin, and very dark eyes. He was dressed in a suit of greyish dark color, and wore a gray sack coat and a black kossuth hat. He had common coarse boots, with pants outside of them, and wore spurs. HAROLD is a little chunky man, quite a youth, and wears a very thin moustache. Reverse side bears a handwritten note: "To my Comrade Robert H Kellogg Oct. 10 1898 James W. Eldridge 127 N. Y. S. V. 23 U. S. C. __ View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F01_001_001
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
Places: AV83 Abraham Lincoln Presidental Collection