The suspicion that John Wilkes Booth had acted in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln as part of a conspiracy of Southern sympathizers reignited Northern rancor and helped doom Lincoln's plans for a relatively generous peace. This Wanted poster was one of the earliest to bear a fugitives photograph. Hastily assembled and issued during the few days that Booth was at large, this poster incorporated carte-de-visite photographs of the suspected conspirators, including one of Booth that had been produced as a publicity shot for the actor. He was trapped and killed by Federal troops on April 26.