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Title: Gazetteer of the District of Columbia for 1871-2
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Morris & Drysdale, pub. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Washington, D.C., Morris & Drysdale
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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day, ISBl, it was new bornin the streets of Baltimore, by Massachusetts troops. On the sameday, 18G5, there was weeping and mourning throughout the land, andsolemn public prayers were held, for Abraham Lincoln had gonethrough the gate of blood io join the noble army of our countrysmartyrs who had gone before him. May 4 his remains were interredin Springfield, Illinois. Men die, but principles live forever. On Wednesday, July 5, sentence was passed by the Military Courtupon the conspirators connected with the murder of President Lincoln,and Avas approved the same day by President Johnson, to be carrie 1into eifect on the 7th. The sentence was that Mrs. M. E. Surratt,David E. Harold, George A. xVtzerodt, and Lewis Payne, (whose realname was Lewis T. Powell, and the one who attacked Secretary Sew-ard,) should be hanged ; and Michael OLaughlin, Samuel Arnold,and Dr. Mudd, imprisoned for lif« ; and Edward Spangler to be con-fined for six years. The execution oi the sentence was one of the
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78 most summary on record ; it was made known to the prisoners on the6th, and at half-past one the next day their spirits fled to that undis-covered country from whose bourne no traveller returns. ^ The following items will give some idea of the immense labor whicadevolved upon the court-martial: Total number of witnesses subpoenaed, 463 ; number ot witnessesexamined, 361 ; number examined, including recalls, 422 ; numbersubpoenaed ior prosecution, 247; number actually examined, 198 ;number subpcenaed for defence, 236 ; number actually examined, 163 ;total number of pages of testimony, (legal cap,) 4,300, making a solid .pile of manuscript somewhat over twenty-six inches high ; the argu-ments will make, in addition, 700. The vast masses of depositionstaken by three Judge Advocates, prior to tho opening of the case, em- ,ployed five short-hand writers a fortnight, and will take two ex^-.e-rienced clerks six weeks to brief and file away. ^ CITY HALL. I The building is situated at the ju

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