Type of trial - Debate

[L Verge]

Back to Kate's question about a group of searchers drowning while on the hunt for Booth - these were actually civilian firefighters from Alexandria, Virginia, who joined in the search. Their boat, the Black Diamond, collided with a Union steamship in the Potomac River near where Booth and Herold put into Gambo Creek in the Northern Neck of Virginia. The firefighters are buried in a tiny national cemetery in Alexandria that very few people even know exists.

Another interesting shipwreck occurred on the same day that Booth died, and its fate went largely unnoticed because the news was swept off the front pages of newspapers because of the capture of Booth and Herold. Check out the story of the Sultana, a wreck which caused the largest maritime loss of American life in our history, and most of the casualties were prisoners-of-war being returned north.