Mary Surratt: the Death Warrant
Gen. John F. Hartranft Reads Warrant
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.
Reading the Death Warrant, July 7, 1865
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