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General John F. Hartranft Reading the Death Warrant

Mary Surratt, Lewis Payne, David Herold, George Atzerodt

Gen. Hartranft read the death warrant for the four convicted of conspiracy, as they stood on the scaffold on July 7, 1865.
Reading the Death Warrant

Reading the Death Warrant, July 7, 1865

Courtesy Library of Congress
The four were Mary Surratt, Lewis Payne, David Herold and George Atzerodt; this detail from the photograph shows Mary Surratt at the left, under the umbrella.

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