The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution, as Recorded in the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft
by Edward Steers Jr.
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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 show more adherent to protocol, Hartranft kept a meticulously detailed account of his experiences in the form of a show lessTags
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Edward Steers Jr., a recognized authority on the Lincoln assassination, is the author of several books, including Getting Right with Lincoln: Correcting Misconceptions about Our Greatest President, Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and Lincoln Legends: Myths, Hoaxes, and Contabulations Associated with Our Greatest President.
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