Assassination of President Lincoln

Charge and Specification of the Co-conspirators

Indictment

By: Joseph Holt

Date: May 9, 1865

Source: Charge and Specification for the indictment of John Wilkes Booth's co-conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, printed in Assassination of President Lincoln: And the Trial of the Conspirators David E. Herold, Mary E. Surratt, Lewis Payne, George A. Atzerodt, Edward Spangler, Samuel A. Mudd, Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlin, (Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach and Baldwin), 1865. The Charge and Specification was written by United States Army Brigadier General Joseph Holt.

About the Author: The judge advocate general for the trial of the co-conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was U. S. Army Brigadier...

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