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Washington, D.C. The four condemned conspirators, Mary Surratt and three others, are on the scaffold with officers and others.  Guards are on the wall, and onlookers are at the bottom left of the photograph.  For a closer view of Surratt and others, see the detail of this photograph.

Image courtesy of Library of Congress.
Modifications © Jone Lewis 2001.

Topics: women in the Civil War, Mary Surratt, assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, execution, hanging, first woman to be executed by the United States

More like this picture:

• Detail from this photograph
• Reading the death warrant

Related topics:

• Women in the Civil War

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