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Title: American bastile. A history of the illegal arrests and imprisonment of American citizens in the northern and border states ... during the late civil war
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Marshall, John A
Subjects: Martial law
Publisher: Philadelphia, T.W. Hartley & Co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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rounds, and there, in oneof the ground-floor cells, used for storing ammunition, a gravewas dug, and in it, beneath a large flagstone, was secretly de-posited the remains of John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth was 27 years old at the time of his death,and by profession an actor. He was born in Harford county,Maryland ; was the son of the late celebrated tragedian, JuniusBrutus Booth, and a brother of the present distinguished actor,Edwin Booth. Note.—In 1867 Edwin Booth, the actor, sent Mr. Weaver, tne sexton ofChrists Church, Baltimore, to Washington, with a request that the remains ofhis brother might be taken up and removed to the family burial place. Afteisome delay the request was granted by President Johnson, who was finally appealed to, and Mr. Weaver took the body to the cemetery in Baltimore andburied it beside the elder Booth and others of the family. The removal wasconducted with great secresy, and was concealed from Secretary Stanton, whohad refused to give his consent.
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MARY E. SURRATT. 763 MARY 15. SURRATT * If powers divineBehold our human actions (as they do),I doubt not then, but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience. During a great civil struggle, in which the uncurbed powerof a ruthless opinion is spurred by the spirit of revenge, it wouldbe an anomaly in the constitution of society if the innocent didnot sometimes suffer on the same scaffold with the guilty. After the assassination of Mr. Lincoln a large number of per-sons were arrested and imprisoned on the accusation or the suspi-cion that they were connected with a conspiracy to murder thePresident and others. Among those so arrested and imprisonedwas Mrs. Mary E. Surratt, who resided in the city of Washington. Mrs. Surratt had formerly resided at Surrattsville, in thcounty of Prince George, Maryland, about ten miles fromWashington; but in October, 1864, having rented her property a*-Surrattsville she moved to a house she owned in the city ofWashington.

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