Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

[maharba]

I'd love to know Herold's exact words (claim) of innocence as he gave up and came out of the barn. Is there a record of what Herold initially said?
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I'd love to know what John Wilkes Booth or 'the man in the barn' said in all the hour or two, as they apparently yelled back and forth. We have just a few fragments of supposed conversation. And then again just a bit of fragment after Boothe was shot and laid on the porch dying. I would guess he would also have asked for a drink of water or spirits, possibly a smoke? Was he paralyzed in a coma, perhaps.