The trial : the assassination of President Lincoln and the trial of the conspirators / edited by Edward Steers, Jr.
"New president Andrew Johnson's executive order on May 1 directed that persons charged with Lincoln's murder would stand trial before a military tribunal. The trial lasted more than fifty days, and 366 witnesses gave testimony. Benn Pitman, a recognized expert in phonography, an early...
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Edward Steers, Jr.
- The Military Trial / Thomas Reed Turner
- General Conspiracy / Edward Steers, Jr.
- Testimony Relating to John Wilkes Booth, and Circumstances Attending the Assassination / Terry Alford
- Edman Spangler / Betty J. Ownsbey
- Mary Elizabeth Surratt / Laurie Verge
- John H. Surratt, Jr. / Joan L. Chaconas
- George Atzerodt / Edward Steers, Jr.
- Lewis Thornton Powell, alias Lewis Payne / Betty Ownsbey
- Samuel Alexander Mudd / Edward Steers, Jr.
- Samuel Arnold and Michael O'Laughlen / Percy E. Martin
- General Order Number 100 / Burris Carnahan
- Military Commission Exhibits in the case of U.S. vs. D.E. Herold, et al
- "Lost Confession" of George A. Atzerodt.