The nine officers of the Commission to try the accused plotters - seven generals and two colonels - had been named on May 6, 1865. Preliminaries complete, the taking of testimony began in earnest in the hearing room at the Old Washington Penitentiary in the grounds of the Washington Arsenal and continued until June 14, 1865. After final arguments, deliberation began June 29, 1865, and sentences pronounced on July 6, 1865. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Clara E. Laughlin, The Death of Lincoln: The Story of Booth's Plot, His Deed and the Penalty (New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1909), 190-191.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Crime/Disasters
