Today In Cracker History

Hang 'Em High!

Ropes are adjusted on the gallows for hanging the conspirators in President Lincoln’s assassination
on July 7, 1865, at Fort McNair in Washington. (Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress)

Among the invited: Mary E. Surratt, the first woman to be judicially murdered by these United Snakes. Details.

Four convicted conspirators in President Lincoln’s assassination are hanged July 7, 1865, at what is
now Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington. Because of the slow photographic techniques of the time,
the motion of the condemned caused the image to blur. (Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress)