Links to the

GOOGLE BOOKS TRANSCRIPT OF TRIAL (1,453 pages)

BENN PITTMAN COMPILATION OF TRIAL

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONSPIRACY TRIAL

The trial excerpts below are taken Benn Pitman's 1865 compilation. A more complete three-volume record of the proceedings was compiled by Ben Perley Poore. The documents were transcribed for the UMKC School of Law.

Jefferson Davis and the Assassination

Confederate Plot to Introduce Pestilence

Frederick Aiken's Argument in Defense of Mary Surratt

W. E. Doster's Argument in Defense of Lewis Payne [Powell]

Thomas Ewing's Argument in Defense of Dr. Samuel Mudd

Hon. John A. Bingham's (Special Judge Advocate's) Summation for the Prosecution


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