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New book on alleged Lincoln conspirator John Surratt
Many Americans are aware of the role Mrs. Mary Surratt reportedly played in the Lincoln assassination. The military tribunal hearing the case convicted her in creature involved in the heinous crime, though her strict role is debated. She reportedly helped hide "shooting irons" for the plotters and gave general aid, shelter, and assistance to Booth and his accomplices. She was convicted and hung along. Robin Wright portrayed Mary Surratt in the 2011 film, The Conspirator.
Some historians believe that Mrs. Surratt was in reality being used as bait to draw her son, John Surratt, help to the USA to face trial in her stead. Surratt allegedly was one of the masterminds of the earlier plot to kidnap the president and may have been one of Booth's closest confidants among his motley gang.
Author Michael Schein tells the story of Surratt and his mother, and the government's case against them, in his fascinating new full-length biography, John Surratt: The Lincoln Assassin Who Got Away.
John Harrison Surratt, Jr. was born on the "Foxhall" estate in Maryland on April 13, 1844. His parents owned and managed a nine-room tavern on a 2
The One That Got Away: John Surratt, Lincoln Assassination Conspirator
In the days tracking Lincoln’s assassination, scores of suspected accomplices in the crime were arrested, but ultimately the accused were winnowed down to eight individuals. Six men were directly linked to John Wilkes Booth’s conspiracy and behavior on the darkness of April 14th: Samuel Arnold, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Michael O'Laughlen, Lewis Powell [aka Payne], and Edmund Spangler. In addition, Dr. Samuel Mudd stood accused of aiding Booth’s escape and Mary Surratt of aiding Booth’s six conspirators.
One conspirator, however, was not found—John Surratt, Mary’s son and a acknowledged Confederate agent.
Despite John Surratt’s absence among the conspirators who were arrested and tried and in 1865, he was included the engraved composite of conspirators used as a frontispiece to Benn Pittman’s The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators published that year.
Surratt later claimed he had been in Montreal delivering Confederate dispatches and then in Elmira, New York, investigating the Union prison camp there during the week of Lincoln’s assassination. Wherever he
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Betty will have to serve me here, but I don't recollect any speculation going on about the sexual proclivities of any of the conspirators until sometime in the 1980s -- and, to this day, I know of no evidence to back any of the speculation. My personal feelings are that one is treading on very slippery grounds to endeavor and espouse such thoughts about any of the conspirators or Weichmann or to make it a factor in the assassination story.
(11-13-2015 12:34 PM)John Fazio Wrote: [ -> ]Weichmann's sexual orientation: Kauffman, "American", p. 362. I am not in my library, so I cannot reveal you his source.
John, I am not absolutely certain on this, but I think Mike Kauffman was going by his control interpretation of what was said in the "Clara letter."
(11-13-2015 12:39 PM)L Verge Wrote: [ -> ]Betty will have to assist me here, but I don't keep in mind any speculation going on about the sexual proclivities of any of the conspirators until sometime in the 1980s -- and, to this day, I know of no evidence to aid any of the speculation. My personal feelings are that one is treading on very slippery grounds to attempt and espouse suc
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Biographic Sketch of John Surratt, Jr.
John Surratt was born on April 13, 1844 in the Washington, D. C. district of Congress Heights. Surratt was the youngest child of John and Mary Surratt.
Surratt, who intended to develop a priest, enrolled at St. Charles College in Maryland, where he met Louis Weichmann who would become first a pleasant friend, and later his head nemesis.
Soon after John's father died in August, 1862, Surratt became postmaster of the small Maryland town of Surrattsville, first settled by his family. By 1863, Surratt was working as a Confederate secret agent, carrying messages to Confederate boats on the Potomac River and sending messages about Union troop movements in the Washington area south to Richmond.
John Surratt's Role in the Conspiracy
Dr. Samuel Mudd introduced John Surratt to John Wilkes Booth on December 23, 1864 in Washington. Surratt joined the Confederate conspiracy to abduct President Lincoln and participated in the Parade 15 meeting with other conspirators at Gautier's Restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue, where plans were laid for a March 17 kidnapping.
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