The Lincoln Assassination: The Evidence is a 1488-page volume compiled
by Surratt Society members Bill Edwards of New York and Dr. Edward Steers, Jr.
of West Virginia, from the first seven reels of M599 at the National Archives
and Records Administration. It contains all of the evidence gathered by the
government in preparation for the trial of the accused (5007 original pages of
documents). The book is available from the museum. For details about purchasing
this item by mail or phone see
Surratt House Museum
Gift Shop and Bookstore.
Dr. Steers and Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer have collaborated to bring us
The
Lincoln Assassination Conspirators: Their Confinement and Execution as Recorded in
the Letterbook of John Frederick Hartranft. Gen.Hartranft was assigned the task
of caring for the accused conspirators and kept a detailed daily record during their
imprisonment, trial, and execution. His original work was located decades ago by
two Society members, Nancy Griffith and Betty Ownsbey, biographer of conspirator
Lewis Powell, at Gettysburg College after researchers had assumed that it was lost
to history. The original is now in a Philadelphia branch of the National Archives.
Steers and Holzer have provided an overview as well as the original text in this
edited work, which sells at Surratt House. For details about purchasing this item
by mail or phone see
Surratt House Museum Gift Shop and
Bookstore.
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