[mairdie]

Great grandfather, Brig Gen Henry L. Burnett, shown in one of the photographs, was one of the special judge advocates at the trial. He had been brought to D.C. by Stanton to run the investigation because he'd just gotten the death penalty for the Southern Conspirators in Indianapolis. When the trail was over, he put together the records for the Library of Congress.

Like many others of the Civil War era, ggf spent his life defending friends - Judge Holt and General Hancock, who did not turn Mary Surratt over when she was requested. He gave talks around the country on the topic. He was later appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

General Burnett

His memories of the trial

Bingham, Holt, Burnett

[Pelham]

Great photos.

The Lincoln assassination was a field day for 19th century conspiracy theorists.

One of the favorites was that Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and some of his fellow Radical Republicans were behind the assassination. Lincoln was too much of a moderate for them.

[Fiddlstix]

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[Az Joe]

https://photocolorizing.wordpress.com/tag/lincoln-funeral/

The picture shows Teddy Roosevelt, age 6 1/2 , and his brother Elliot, age 4, in the window of their home overlooking Lincolns funeral procession as it went through New York City on April 25, 1865.

http://abrahamlincolnblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/lincolns-funeral-in-new-york.html