5th July 1865 - Conspirators court-martialed for plotting to kill Lincoln, Grant and Andrew Johnson
Confederate sympathizers David E. Herold, G. A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, Mary E. Surratt, Michael O’Laughlin, Edward Spangler, Samuel Arnold and Samuel A. Mudd were arraigned on May 9 and convicted on July 5.
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