The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators

On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in what he envisioned part of a scheme to plunge the federal government into chaos and gain a reprieve for the struggling Confederacy. The plan failed. By April 26, Booth was killed resisting capture and eight of the nine conspirators eventually charged in Lincoln's murder were in custody. Their trial would become one of the most famous and most controversial in U.S. history. New president Andrew Johnson's

Author: Edward Steers
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 01/01/2013
Pages: 552
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.87lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.28w x 1.33d
ISBN: 9780813141114

About the Author

Edward Steers Jr. is the author of several books about President Lincoln and his assassination, including Lincoln: A Pictorial History, His Name is Still Mudd: The Case Against Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd, and Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

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