sentences:  In 1865, Townsend was Washington correspondent for the "New York World", covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and its aftermath.His daily reports filed between April 17 – May 17 were published later in 1865 as a book, "The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth", reprinted in 1977, and published in audio version in 2009.Immediately following the war, he married Elizabeth Evans Rhodes of Philadelphia.