(LINCOLN ASSASSINATION CONSPIRATORS)
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(LINCOLN ASSASSINATION CONSPIRATORS) GEORGE L. PORTER Union Army surgeon ordered by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to oversee the secret burial of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. He then took charge of the medical care of the eight other assassination conspirators during their imprisonment and trial and following the hangings of four (Mary Surratt Lewis Powell David Herold and George Atzerodt) he made the official pronouncement of their deaths. Scarce Manuscript D.S. ""G.L. Porter Asst. Surg. U.S.A."" 1p. oblong 12mo. [n.p. n.d. but certainly from the U.S. Arsenal in Washington] an overnight pass given to a hospital attendant. Very good.
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