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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

Reading the Death Warrant, July 7, 1865

Courtesy Library of Congress

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