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The assassin's accomplice : Mary Surratt and the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln / Kate Clifford Larson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Larson, Kate Clifford.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conspiracies--Washington (D.C.).
- Conspiracies.
- Trials (Assassination)--Washington (D.C.).
- Trials (Assassination).
- Surratt, Mary E. (Mary Eugenia), 1820-1865.
- Surratt, Mary E.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Assassin's Accomplice, historian Kate Clifford Larson tells the gripping story of Mary Surratt, a little-known participant in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln, and the first woman ever to be executed by the federal government of the United States. Surratt, a Confederate sympathizer, ran the boarding house in Washington where the conspirators-including her rebel son, John Surratt-met to plan the assassination. When a military tribunal convicted her for her crimes and sentenced her to death, five of the nine commissioners petitioned President Andrew Johnson to show mercy on Surratt becaus
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; EPILOGUE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-74438-0
- 9786612744389
- 0-7867-4646-7
- OCLC:
- 609856268
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