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Washington, D.C. The four condemned conspirators, Mary Surratt and three others, on the scaffold as General John F. Hartranft reads the death warrant to them.  Guards are on the wall, and onlookers are at the bottom left of the photograph.  See detail for closer view.

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, death warrant, General John F. Hartranft

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• On the Scaffold
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• Women in the Civil War

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