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The Judicial Murder of Mary Surratt
by David Miller DeWitt
Originally Published in 1895
Reprint Edition 2014
paperback; 200 pages
Mary Surratt was the first woman tried and executed by the United States. She owned and ran a boardinghouse in Washington, D.C. where John Wilkes Booth and other conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln often met. She was tried and convicted of complicity in and hanged on 7 July 1865. This book portrays her as an innocent victim of a vengeful military tribunal that did not have the right to try her for involvement in the assassination plot. Two subsequent events supported this view. One was the 1866 Supreme Court decision in ex parte Milligan, which invalidated the authority of military courts to try civilians in places where civil courts were functioning. Ambiguity concerning military and civil authority in Washington, D.C. in 1865 raised questions about the legality of her trial. The other event was the trial of her son, John Surratt, before a civil jury in 1867. Surratt's testimony was similar to that of his mother. When his trial ended in a hung jury, it seemed to many that the military court had executed an innocent woman.
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Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the War on the South 1861-65
by George Edmonds (1904)
Truths of History
by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (1920)
Why Was Lincoln Murdered?
by Otto Eisenschiml (1937)
Other Titles By This Author:
Lincoln as the South Should Know Him
The Truth of the War Conspiracy of 1861
Drums in the Deep South (DVD)
Executive Power
The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government
Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade
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The Constitutional Right of Secession
The Nationalist Myth and the Fourth of July
Southern Race Relations Before and After the War
A Southern Estimate of Abraham Lincoln
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