Arnold, Samuel Bland

Life Span
to
Full name
Samuel Bland Arnold
Place of Birth
Washington, DC
Burial Place
Baltimore, MD
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
South
Origins
Slave State
Education
Other
Other Education
St. Timothy's Hall, Baltimore, MD
Date Event
Assassination conspirator Samuel Arnold is arrested in the morning at Fortress Monroe in Virginia
In Washington, John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters are transferred to the Old Penitentiary for trial
In Washington, President Johnson orders a military trial for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters
In Washington, the officers of the military court for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters are named
In Washington, membership of the military court for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters is adjusted
In Washington, the accused Lincoln Assassination plotters all plead not guilty before their military court
President Johnson orders the surviving Lincoln conspirators to serve their sentences off the coast of Florida
Lincoln's Assassination
Date Title
Charges and specifications against the Lincoln Conspirators on trial in Washington, D.C., May 8, 1865
Official Verdict of the Military Commission trying the Lincoln Conspirators, as endorsed by President Johnson, July 5, 1865
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