The Lincoln assassination conspirators
Subtitle: their confinement and execution, as recorded in the letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft
By: edited by Edward Steers, Jr. and Harold Holzer ; with a foreword by Allen Weinstein.
Contributors: Hartranft, John F., 1830-1889.; Steers, Edward.; Holzer, Harold.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press; LSU Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780807133965
Subjects: Hartranft, John F., -- 1830-1889 -- Diaries; Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Assassination -- Sources; Assassins -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Washington Arsenal (Washington, D.C.) -- History -- Sources; Generals -- United States -- Diaries; Executions and executioners -- Washington (D.C.) -- Diaries; Imprisonment -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Hanging -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Justice, Administration of -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Genres: Diaries; Sources
Description: "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.
Notes: "In association with National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C."

Includes index.