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Here They Hanged
Lewis Paine, David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt, the first woman in America to be hanged, are photographed during their execution. They were all involved in President Lincoln's assassination. The image shows the four conspirators on the scaffolding in the yard of the Washington Arsenal Penitentiary (now Fort McNair). A private audience of invited guests stands on the lower left.
Photograph by Alexander Gardner, 1865 |