Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy: Trial of the Conspirators by a Military Commission, and a Review of the Trial of John H. SurrattHarris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey)
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Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy: Trial of the Conspirators by a Military Commission, and a Review of the Trial of John H. Surratt
Harris, T. M. (Thomas Mealey)
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination; Surratt, John H. (John Harrison), 1844-1916
_Charge._--For maliciously, unlawfully, and traitorously, and
in aid of the existing armed rebellion against the United
States of America, on or before the 6th day of March, A.D.
1865, and on divers other days between that day and the
15th day of April, A.D. 1865, combining, confederating, and
conspiring together with one John H. Surratt, John Wilkes
Booth, Jefferson Davis, George N. Sanders, Beverly Tucker,
Jacob Thompson, William C. Cleary, Clement C. Clay, George
Harper, George Young, and others unknown, to kill and murder
within the military department of Washington, and within the
fortified and intrenched lines thereof, Abraham Lincoln,
late, at the time of said combining, confederating, and
conspiring President of the United States of America and
Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy thereof; Andrew
Johnson, now Vice-President of the United States aforesaid;
William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States
aforesaid; and Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General of the
army of the United States aforesaid, then in command of the
armies of the United States under the direction of the said
Abraham Lincoln; and in pursuance of, and in prosecuting said
malicious, unlawful, and traitorous conspiracy aforesaid, and
in aid of said rebellion, afterwards, to wit, on the 14th
day of April, A.D. 1865, within the military department at
Washington aforesaid, and within the fortified and intrenched
lines of said military department, together with said John
Wilkes Booth and John H. Surratt, maliciously, unlawfully, and
traitorously murdering the said Abraham Lincoln, then President
of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the army and
navy of the United States as aforesaid; and maliciously,
unlawfully, and traitorously assaulting with intent to kill and
murder the said William H. Seward, then Secretary of State of
the United States as aforesaid; and lying in wait with intent
maliciously, unlawfully, and traitorously to kill and murder
Andrew Johnson, then being Vice-President of the United States;
and the said Ulysses S. Grant, then being Lieutenant General,
and in command of the armies of the United States as aforesaid.
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