The conspiracy trial for the murder of the president
Subtitle: and the attempt to overthrow the government by the assassination of its principal officers.
By: Edited, with an introduction, by Ben: Perley Poore.
Contributors: Atzerodt, George A., 1835-1865, defendant.; Payne, Lewis, 1845-1865, defendant.; O'Laughlin, Michael, d. 1867, defendant.; Spangler, Edward, defendant.; Arnold, Samuel, 1834-1906, defendant.; Surratt, Mary E. 1820-1865, defendant.; Mudd, Samuel Alexander, 1833-1883, defendant.; Poore, Benjamin Perley, 1820-1887, ed.; United States. Army. Military Commission (Lincoln's assassins : 1865)
Publisher: J.E. Tilton and Company
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination; Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
Notes: 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.