Here Come De Judge(s)

The trial of the Lincoln conspirators was labeled by Dave McGowan, whose material we have been quoting, as “one of the most sordid chapters of US history.

In an article I previously wrote several years back now and which is up on http://www.southernheritage411.com entitled The Hanging of Mary Surratt  I noted that “Reverdy Johnson, Mrs. Surratt’s first attorney, had contended that the military court that tried the conspirators was without proper authority to do so as long as the civil courts were sitting. This was something that was argued for nearly a century and I’ll bet you could still get a heated debate going about it in some circles.” My opinion at the time I wrote that agreed with Reverdy Johnson’s. It still does.

Dave McGowan, in Why Everything You Think You Know About The Lincoln Assassination Is Wrong  went into some detail about all this.

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