The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators

By Edward Steers Jr.

Book Overview

" With commentary by Terry Alford, Burrus Carnahan, Joan L. Chaconis, Percy Martin, Betty Ownsbey, Edward Steers Jr., Thomas R. Turner, and Laurie Verge On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. By April 26, eight of the ten people eventually charged as accomplices in Lincoln's murder were in custody. Booth was killed resisting capture and John Surratt was in Canada, his whereabouts unknown to Federal authorities. In the days that followed, President Johnson is

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813122775
• ISBN13: 9780813122779
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher