Accused Lincoln murder conspirators transferred to Washington Penitentiary, May 1865, artist's impression, detail

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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College

Scan date

06/22/2013

Notes

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, October 8, 2013.

Depicted ContentLincoln's Assassination

Depicted ContentIn Washington, John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters are transferred to the Old Penitentiary for trial

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engraving

Original caption

Mrs. Surratt, with the conspirators and assassins, hooded and ironed, proceeding to the penitentiary at Washington, from the steamer Keyport, which brought them to the wharf from the gunboat in the Potomac. - From a sketch by a correspondent.

Source citation

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, May 27, 1865, 153.

Source note

Cropped from the larger image, also available here.