The Arrest of Mary Surratt and Lewis Powell

A U.S. Army captain climbed the stairs to the second floor entrance of a home in Washington, D.C., during the night of April 17, 1865. Bathed in the soft gas light of street lamps, he paused at the door and peered through the blinds of an adjacent window. He saw four women huddled together in close conversation. He rang the doorbell and interrupted the scene. Here's eyewitness testimony from the trial of John H. Surratt on June 26, 1867.

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