Sarah Miller - Hanged!: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

Mary Surratt: widowed mother of three; owner of a boardinghouse at 541 H Street in Washington, DC, and a tavern in Prince Georges County, Maryland

John Harrison Surratt Jr.: Marys younger son

Elizabeth Susanna Anna Surratt: Marys daughter

Olivia Jenkins: niece of Mary Surratt

John Zadock Jenkins: brother of Mary Surratt

Apollonia Dean: ten-year-old student at St. Patricks Institute; shared Mary Surratts bedroom (not present on the night of the assassination)

Honora Fitzpatrick: seventeen-year-old boarder; shared Mary Surratts bedroom

John and Eliza Holohan: married couple renting two upstairs rooms from Mary Surratt

John Lloyd: leased Mary Surratts tavern in Prince Georges County, Maryland

Louis Weichmann: twenty-two-year-old War Department clerk and college schoolmate of John Surratt Jr.; shared John Jr.s bedroom at the Surratt boardinghouse

Samuel Arnold: schoolmate of John Wilkes Booth

George A. Atzerodt: carriage painter

David Herold: former pharmacy student and druggists assistant

Dr. Samuel Mudd: tobacco farmer and physician

Michael OLaughlen: childhood friend of John Wilkes Booth

Lewis Thornton Powell (aka Reverend Paine and Mr. Wood): Confederate deserter

Edman Ned Spangler: sceneshifter at Fords Theatre

Edwin M. Stanton: United States secretary of war

Lieutenant Colonel John A. Foster, Colonel Henry S. Olcott, and Colonel Henry H. Wells: officers chosen by Secretary Stanton to organize the influx of evidence in the investigation of the assassination

John Clarvoe: Metropolitan Police detective; searched 541 H Street in the early-morning hours of April 15, 1865

George Cottingham: detective under the command of Provost Marshal OBeirne; arrested tavern keeper John Lloyd

Ely Devoe: assisted Major Smith in the arrest of the occupants of 541 H Street on April 17, 1865

John Lee: detective under Provost Marshal OBeirne; searched George Atzerodts hotel room

James McDevitt: Metropolitan Police detective; searched 541 H Street in the early morning hours of April 15, 1865

R. C. Morgan: assisted Major Smith in the arrest of the occupants of 541 H Street on April 17, 1865

James OBeirne: provost marshal of Washington, DC

Charles Rosch: assisted Major Smith in the arrest of the occupants of 541 H Street on April 17, 1865

Thomas Sampson: assisted Major Smith in the arrest of the occupants of 541 H Street on April 17, 1865

Henry W. Smith: detective under Colonel Wells; ordered to arrest occupants of 541 H Street on April 17, 1865

William Wermerskirch: assisted Major Smith in the arrest of the occupants of 541 H Street on April 17, 1865

General John Frederick Hartranft: special provost marshal of Washington, DC; in charge of the Old Arsenal Penitentiary

Major General Winfield Scott Hancock: commander of the military district of Washington, DC, and General Hartranfts direct superior

George Porter: army surgeon responsible for the health of the prisoners at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary

Captain Christian Rath: hangman appointed by General Hartranft

Frederick Aiken: twenty-eight-year-old Baltimore attorney and former Union soldier

John W. Clampitt: twenty-six-year-old Washington, DC, attorney

Reverdy Johnson: Maryland senator and former US attorney general

John Bingham: Ohio congressman; appointed special judge advocate in the conspiracy trial

Colonel Henry L. Burnett: appointed assistant judge advocate in the conspiracy trial

Brigadier General Joseph Holt: judge advocate general of the United States Army; presided over the conspiracy trial

Washington City, April 15, 1865

It was two or three oclock in the morning when the bell of Mary Surratts boardinghouse at 541 H Street rang very violently. On the third floor, twenty-two-year-old Louis Weichmann, a former college chum of Marys younger son, roused himself from bed. After pulling on a pair of pants under his nightshirt, he ran barefooted down the stairs. Weichmann did not open the door immediately. Wary of middle-of-the-night visitors, he tapped on the inside of the front door to let whoever had clanged the bell know that they should stop.

Who is there? Weichmann asked.

Government officers, come to search the house for John Wilkes Booth and John Surratt, came the prompt reply.

Louis Weichmann had seen John Wilkes Boothone of the most famous actors in Americathat very afternoon. Booth had stopped by to speak with Mrs. Surratt just before Weichmann had driven her into the countryside on an errand. However, Weichmann and Booths mutual friend, Marys son John Surratt Jr., had left for Canada over a week before. Through the closed door, Weichmann informed the officers that neither of the men they sought was inside.