The Trial
Subtitle: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators
By: edited by Edward Steers, Jr.
Contributors: Steers, Edward.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Assassination; Trials (Assassination) -- Washington (D.C.)
Other titles: Assassination of President Lincoln and the trial of the conspirators.
Description: "A special edition of the trial transcript as compiled and arranged in 1865 by Benn Pitman."--Jacket.

"In this reprint edition of Pitman's original 1865 version, eight leading assassination scholars provide commentary designed to guide the leader through the 402 pages of testimony by focusing on the relevant testimony as it relates to each defendant"--Preface.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Edward Steers, Jr.; title: The military trial / Thomas Reed Turner; title: General conspiracy / Edward Steers, Jr.; title: Testimony relating to John Wilkes Booth, and circumstances attending the assassination / Terry Alford; title: Edman Spangler / Betty J. Ownsbey; title: Mary Elizabeth Surratt / Laurie Verge; title: John H. Surratt, Jr. / Joan L. Chaconas; title: George Atzerodt / Edward Steers, Jr.; title: Lewis Thornton Powell, alias Lewis Payne / Betty Ownsbey; title: Samuel Alexander Mudd / Edward Steers, Jr.; title: Arnold and O'Laughlen / Percy E. Martin; title: General Order Number 100 / Burris Carnahan; title: Military Commission exhibits in the case of U.S. vs. D.E. Herold, et al.; title: "Lost Confession" of George A. Atzerodt.