Trial of the assassins and conspirators for the murder of Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of Vice-President Johnson and the whole cabinet : the most intensely interesting trial on record : containing the evidence in full, with arguments of counsel on both sides, and the verdict of the military commission : correct likenesses and graphic history of all the assassins, conspirators, and other persons connected with their arrest and trial
21-102 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., map, plans, ports. ; 24 cm.
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Trial of David E. Herold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, Michael O'Laughlin, Edward Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Mary E. Surratt, and Samuel A. Mudd, before a military commission at Washington, D.C.
"Reprint from Pennsylvania history, vol. no. XIX, no. 3, July, 1952, quarterly journal of the Pennsylvania Historical Association."
Summary
This is a pamphlet which tells the story of Matilda Edwards Strong who is buried in Reading PA, where she lived with her husband. Earlier in her life she lived in the midwest as a guest in the home of the wealthy Edwards family in Springfield, Illinois. Mary Todd, Abraham Lincoln's future wife, was also a relative of that family and was visiting there at the same time. Lincoln and Todd became very close, but it was rumored that Lincoln for a period was drawn toward Matilda. This is the basis of the story connecting Lincoln to Reading.
Life in southern prisons; from the diary of Corporal Charles Smedley, of Company G, 90th regiment Penn'a volunteers, commencing a few days before the "battle of the Wilderness", in which he was taken prisoner, in the evening of the fifth month fifth, 1864: also, a short description of the march to and battle of Gettysburg, together with a biographical sketch of the author
History of the Pennsylvania reserve corps: a complete record of the organization; and of the different companies, regiments and brigades; containing descriptions of expeditions, marches, skirmishes, and battles; together with biographical sketches of officers and personal records of each man during his term of service
