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The conspiracy trial for the murder of the president, and the attempt to overthrow the government by the assassination of its principal officers
Content Provider | Library of Congress - Books/Printed Material |
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Editor | Poore, Benjamin Perley |
Organization | United States. Army. Military Commission (Lincoln's assassins : 1865) |
Temporal Coverage | 1865 |
Description | Trial of David E. Herold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, Michael O'Laughlin, Edward Spangler, Sauel Arnold, Mary E. Surratt and Samuel A. Mudd, before a military commission, at Washington, D.C. "The Commission [to try the conspirators] convened by Special order no. 216, met ... [May 10, 1865] consisting of the following detail:--Major-General David Hunter, U.S.V.; Major-General Lew Wallace, U.S.V.; Brevet Major-General August V. Kautz, U.S.V; Brigadier-General Alvin [i.e. Albion] P. Howe, U.S.V.; Brigadier-General Robert S. Foster, U.S.V.; Brevet Brigadier-General James A. Ekin, U.S.V.; Brigadier-General T.M. Harris, U.S.V.; Brevet Colonel C.H. Tompkins, U.S.A.; Lieutenant-Colonel David R. Clendenin, Eighth Illinois cavalry." "Brigadier-General Joseph Holt, judge advocate and recorder, assisted by Judge Advocates Burnett and Bingham."--v. 1, p. 9-10. "The session of the Commission was not public; but subsequently the injunction of secrecy was removed from the following portions of the evidence taken."--v. 1, p. 20. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. digital files not viewed ; td12 2009-01-12 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Boston, J.E. Tilton and Company |
Part of Series | Lincoln and the Law Law Library of Congress Catalog |
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Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Keyword | Assassination John Wilkes Booth Abraham Lincoln |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Assassination |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Booth, John Wilkes,--1838-1865 |
Subject Domain (in LCC) | E457.5 .H44 |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Book |