Conspirator George Atzerodt in irons after the assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865 - he was later hung.
Conspirator George Atzerodt in irons at the Washington Navy Yard in April 1865 following the assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln. Atzerodt (1835 - 1865) was one of a number of people involved in the plot to simultaneously kill Lincoln and other Union leaders on the night of April 14. While John Wilkes Booth succeeded in fatally shooting Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Atzerodt was supposed to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson at a hotel in Washington DC where he was staying. Atzerodt lost his nerve and apparently got drunk instead but was subsequently arrested, tried and sentenced to death by a military tribunal. He was hanged on July 7 with fellow convicted conspirators Lewis Powell, David Herold and Mary Surratt. Photo by Alexander Gardner (1821 - 1882).
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