The Lincoln assassination conspirators
their confinement and execution, as recorded in the letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft
by Edward Steers and Harold Holzer
"On May 1, 1865, two weeks after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, recently inaugurated president Andrew Johnson appointed John Frederick Hartranft to command the military prison at the Washington Arsenal, where the U.S. government had just incarcerated the seven men and one woman accused of complicity in the shooting. From that day through the execution of four of the accomplices, the Pennsylvania-born general held responsibility for the most notorious prisoners in American history. A strict adherent to protocol, Hartranft kept a meticulously detailed account of his experiences in the form of a letterbook. In The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators, noted Lincoln scholars Edward Steers, Jr., and Harold Holzer, in partnership with the National Archives, present this fascinating historical record for the first time with contextual materials and expert annotations, providing a remarkable glimpse behind the scenes of the assassination's aftermath."--Inside jacket.
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Generals, Diaries, Executions and executioners, Assassination, Imprisonment, Washington Arsenal (Washington, D.C.), Sources, Hanging, Administration of Justice, History, Assassins, Lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, assassination, Generals, biography, Justice, administration ofPlaces
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The Lincoln assassination conspirators: their confinement and execution, as recorded in the letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft
2009, Louisiana State University Press, LSU Press
in English
0807133965 9780807133965
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"In association with National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C."
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