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John Harrison Surratt Jr. (April 13, 1844 – April 21, 1916) was an American Confederate spy who was accused of plotting with John Wilkes Booth to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln; he was also suspected of involvement in the Abraham Lincoln assassination.
John Surratt stood trial in a civil court in Washington in 1867. Four residents of Elmira, New York, [12]: 27 [100]: 112–15 claimed they had seen him there between April 13 and 15; fifteen others testified they either saw him or someone who resembled him, in Washington (or traveling to or from Washington) on the day of the assassination. The ...
John H. Surratt Jr. (seen here in 1868) was a Confederate courier. John Surratt collapsed suddenly and died on either August 25 [9] [62] or August 26 [63] [64] in 1862 (sources differ as to the date). The cause of death was a stroke. [45] [62] [65] The Surratt family affairs were in serious financial difficulties. [63]
She and her son, John Surratt Jr, hosted members of the conspiracy in the townhome. The group first planned to abduct Lincoln, but the initial plot failed. Booth started planning the assassination ...
John Surratt collapsed suddenly and died on either August 25 [19] [20] or August 26 [21] [22] in 1862 (sources differ as to the date). The cause of death was a stroke. [13] [20] [23] Mary Surratt struggled with running the farm, tavern, and other businesses without the help of her son, John Surratt Jr. [24] In the fall of 1864, she began considering moving to her townhouse at 541 H Street [25 ...
John Surratt purchased the house from Augustus A. Gibson on December 6, 1853, and operated it as a boarding house. [3] After her husband died in 1862, Mary Surratt chose to rent her tavern/residence in nearby Surrattsville , Maryland, to John M. Lloyd , a former Washington, D.C., policeman and Confederate sympathizer and moved into the ...
Her son, John Surratt, has escaped and now hundreds of agents are looking for him. Also charged are Herold, Powell, Atzerodt, Michael O'Laughlen, Edman Spangler, Samuel Mudd, and Samuel Arnold. Reverdy feels unable to defend Surratt because he is a Southerner and asks a reluctant Aiken who is a Northerner to take over the defense.
John Surratt served as both a courier and spy. John H. Sothoron appears to have commanded the Confederate underground in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Col. Sothoron lived near Charlotte Hall Military Academy. His son, Webster, attended the school and was reputed to be a spy.