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General John F. Hartranft Reading the Death Warrant

Mary Surratt, Lewis Payne, David Herold, George Atzerodt

Closeup of the convicted conspirators and others on the scaffold as Gen. Hartranft read the death warrant, July 7, 1865.
Reading the Death Warrant

Reading the Death Warrant, July 7, 1865

Courtesy Library of Congress

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