Hanged At Lincoln

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750952423
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hanged at Lincoln written by Stephen Wade and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing book gathers together the stories of 120 criminals hanged at both Lincoln Castle Prison and HMP Lincoln on Greetwell Road between 1203 and 1961. The condemned featured here range from coiners and forgers, to thieves, highwaymen and poisoners. Among those executed at Lincoln were Richard Insole, hanged in 1887 for murdering his wife; child killer Frederick Nodder, hanged in 1937; and Herbert Leonard Mills, who failed to commit the perfect murder and was hanged in 1951 by Albert Pierrepoint. Fully illustrated with photographs, drawings, news cuttings and documents, Hanged at Lincoln will appeal to everyone interested in the shadier side of Lincoln's history.

Author : Griffin, John Chandler
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455600106
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abraham Lincoln's Execution written by Griffin, John Chandler and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James L. Swanson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061237620
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lincoln's Assassins written by James L. Swanson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-05-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive illustrated history of Abraham Lincoln's assassination follows the shocking events from the tragic scene at Ford's Theatre to the trial and execution of John Wilkes Booth's coconspirators. Few remember them today, but once the names Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt, Edman Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlin, and Dr. Samuel Mudd were the most reviled and notorious in America. In Lincoln's Assassins, James L. Swanson and Daniel R. Weinberg present an unprecedented visual record of almost three hundred contemporary photographs, letters, documents, prints, woodcuts, newspapers, pamphlets, books, and artifacts, many hitherto unpublished. These rare materials evoke the popular culture of the time, record the origins of the Lincoln myth, take the reader into the courtroom and the cells of the accused, document the beginning of American photojournalism, and memorialize the fates of the eight conspirators.

Author : N. V. Gagen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953184606
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hanged at Lincoln 1716-1961 written by N. V. Gagen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lloyd Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four who Were Hanged written by Lloyd Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Steers, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807135046
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators written by Edward Steers, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 1, 1865, two weeks after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, recently inaugurated president Andrew Johnson appointed John Frederick Hartranft to command the military prison at the Washington Arsenal, where the U.S. government had just incarcerated the seven men and one woman accused of complicity in the shooting. From that day through the execution of four of the accomplices, the Pennsylvania-born general held responsibility for the most notorious prisoners in American history. A strict adherent to protocol, Hartranft kept a meticulously detailed account of his experiences in the form of a letterbook. In The Lincoln Assassination Conspirators, noted Lincoln scholars Edward Steers, Jr., and Harold Holzer, in partnership with the National Archives, present this fascinating historical record for the first time with contextual materials and expert annotations, providing a remarkable glimpse behind the scenes of the assassination's aftermath. Hartranft oversaw every aspect of the prisoners' daily lives, from making sure they were fed and kept clean to ensuring that no one communicated with them except on the written orders of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. In his Letterbook, Hartranft scrupulously recounts the arrival of each prisoner and describes the prison routine -- which included three simple meals a day, a twice-daily cell inspection by Hartranft himself, and frequent physical examinations by an army physician. The prisoners wore wrist and leg shackles and, controversially, most of them wore special hoods designed to isolate them from their surroundings. When the conspirators' trial began, the nation waited eagerly for news, and many sought retribution against those they held responsible for the nation's grief. Hartranft resisted calls for both vengeance and mercy and continued to treat his notorious charges as humanely as possible, facilitating meetings with clergy and sending letters to and from family members. Yet, as his detached, detailed description of the execution of four of the conspirators shows, he did not allow emotion to impede the performance of his duty. The legal and moral issues surrounding the conspirators' trial -- the extraordinary use of military rather than civil justice, the treatment of the accused while incarcerated, the fine line between swift and precipitous justice -- remain volatile, unsettled issues today. Hartranft's keen observations, ably analyzed by historians Steers and Holzer, will add a riveting new chapter to the story of Lincoln's assassination.

Author : Sarah Miller
Publisher : Random House Studio
ISBN 13 : 0593181581
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hanged! written by Sarah Miller and published by Random House Studio. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the critically acclaimed author of The Borden Murders comes the thrilling story of Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the US government, for her alleged involvement in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. A dubious distinction belongs to Mary Surratt: on July 7, 1865, she became the first woman to be executed by the United States government, accused of conspiring in the plot to assassinate not only President Abraham Lincoln, but also the vice president, the secretary of state, and General Grant. Mary Surratt was a widow, a Catholic, a businesswoman, a slave owner, a Union resident, and the mother of a Confederate Secret Service courier. As the proprietor of the boardinghouse where John Wilkes Booth and his allies are known to have gathered, Mary Surratt was widely believed, as President Andrew Johnson famously put it, to have “kept the nest that hatched the egg.” But did Mrs. Surratt truly commit treason by aiding and abetting Booth in his plot to murder the president? Or was she the victim of a spectacularly cruel coincidence? Here is YA nonfiction at its best--gripping, thought-provoking, and unputdownable.

Author : Guy W Moore
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806146982
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of Mrs. Surratt written by Guy W Moore and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the hot, windless July 7 of 1865, Mary E. Surratt, who had been found guilty of complicity in the assassination of President Lincoln, was hanged with three of the men who had participated in the plot. When Mrs. Surratt was hanged, almost no one doubted her guilt. It was an accepted fact that she had given aid to John Wilkes Booth. And it was generally believed that, at her Washington boardinghouse, "she kept the nest that hatched the egg." But the execution was hardly over when there were murmurs that Mrs. Surratt was not guilty. With the passing of time and the appearance of evidence that tends to discredit the testimony of the chief witnesses against her, the verdict of guilt has come increasingly under fire. Partisan writers and speakers have attempted to establish her guilt or innocence, but until publication of this volume no one had made a complete and unbiased presentation of the evidence. What, then, is the truth about Mrs. Surratt? Was she guilty or innocent? In this book, Guy W. Moore presents an objective, impartial review of the case to establish, so far as possible, the truth of Mrs. Surratt's position. Moore takes into consideration the people and the events with which Mrs. Surratt was involved in the days preceding the assassination and on that fateful day itself; he interprets the official stenographic report of the assassination trial and the diaries and papers of people concerned with the trial. From these sources, along with the reports in contemporary newspapers and periodicals, he presents evidence designed to clarify the controversy which has raged about the name of Mrs. Surratt since her death that scorching Friday afternoon in 1865.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385536286
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hanged by the Neck Until You be Dead. Or, Why the Death Sentence Should be Abolished written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Author : Robert I. Alotta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Justice written by Robert I. Alotta and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A factual account of how Lincoln's lack of management skills, his vacillation over decisions of military justice, and his complete disregard for the Constitution caused the deaths of many Union soldiers off the battlefield. This book is not another biography of Lincoln, nor is it a revisionist history of the Civil War era. It is, however, a glimpse into the everyday world of the North's soldiers. Here is a frightening account of justice denied to hundreds of poor, uneducated soldiers who were tried, convicted and executed for military offenses, sometimes trivial. It is also a study of the government's misreporting of the actual number of men who were executed by court-martial order. This is the first book to study intensively the court-martial system during the Civil War and the effect of that system on the common soldier. With its careful analysis backed by detailed and fascinating documentation, Civil War Justice will be read and discussed for years to come.