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These records relate to the investigation of persons suspected of involvement in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865). They contain copies of correspondence received and sent by the military commission investigating the assassination; summaries of evidence of possible use in the trial; proceedings of and exhibits used in the court martial (May 9-June 29, 1865); and a record of the trial published in the newspaper Daily National Intelligencer (May 16-June 30, 1865). Continue…
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The full Conspiracy of John Wilkes Booth & hist co-conspirators
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Powell upbringing
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General Ulysses S. Grant
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you are to be the Charlotte Corday of the nineteenth century.
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The purpose of the meeting was, as I was informed afterwards, to send certain officers on detached service to Canada and the borders, and to deliver prisoners, to lay Northern cities in ashes, and, finally, to get after the members of the Cabinet and kill the President. That was the main purpose.
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Jefferson Davis
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Judge Usber
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J.H. Kimball
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J.H. Kimball
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Booth
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Mahoney
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Source Information
Investigation and Trial Papers Relating to the Assassination of President Lincoln. Original data from: The National Archives
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