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. Detail from a larger photograph.
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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
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- Larger photograph from which this detail is selected
- Reading the death warrant
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