The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators

The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators

by Edward Steers Jr. (Editor)
The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators

The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators

by Edward Steers Jr. (Editor)

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Overview

On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in what he envisioned part of a scheme to plunge the federal government into chaos and gain a reprieve for the struggling Confederacy. The plan failed. By April 26, Booth was killed resisting capture and eight of the nine conspirators eventually charged in Lincoln's murder were in custody. Their trial would become one of the most famous and most controversial in U.S. history. New president Andrew Johnson's

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813141114
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 01/01/2013
Pages: 552
Sales rank: 795,598
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.40(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Edward Steers Jr. is the author of several books about President Lincoln and his assassination, including Lincoln: A Pictorial History, His Name is Still Mudd: The Case Against Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd, and Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Table of Contents

Preface VII

Introduction Edward Steers Jr. XI

The Military Trial Thomas Reed Turner XXI

General Conspiracy Edward Steers Jr. XXIX

Testimony Relating to John Wilkes Booth, and Circumstances Attending the Assassination Terry Alford XXXVIII

Edman Spangler Betty J. Ownsbey XLVII

Mary Elizabeth Surratt Laurie Verge LII

John H. Surratt Jr. Joan L. Chaconas LX

George Atzerodt Edward Steers Jr. LXVI

Lewis Thornton Powell, alias Lewis Payne Betty Ownsbey LXXII

Samuel Alexander Mudd Edward Steers Jr. LXXIX

Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlen Percy E. Martin LXXXVIII

General Order Number 100 Burrus Carnahan XCVII

Military Commission Exhibits in the case of U.S. vs. D.E. Herold, et al. CI

"Lost Confession" of George A. Atzerodt CIV

Title Page to Original Edition i

Contents to Original Edition v

Illustrations follow page XCVI

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