Mary Surratt was the first woman tried and executed by the United States. She owned and ran a boardinghouse in Washington, D.C. where John Wilkes Booth and other conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln often met. She was tried and convicted of complicity in Lincoln's assassination and hanged on 7 July 1865. This book portrays her as an innocent victim of a vengeful military tribunal that did not have the right to try her for involvement in the assassination plot. Two subsequent events supported this view. One was the 1866 Supreme Court decision Ex parte Milligan, which...
Mary Surratt was the first woman tried and executed by the United States. She owned and ran a boardinghouse in Washington, D.C. where John Wilkes Boot...
Published in 1895, this is the history of Mary Surratt, her imprisonment and her being sentenced to death by hanging after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Published in 1895, this is the history of Mary Surratt, her imprisonment and her being sentenced to death by hanging after the assassination of Abraha...
