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Holt, Joseph (1807-1894) Copy of charge and specification against...

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07544 Author/Creator: Holt, Joseph (1807-1894) Place Written: s.l. Type: Document signed Date: 1865/05 ca. Pagination: 3 p. 30.8 x 20.3 cm Order a Copy

Title continues: "Charge and specification against David E. Herold, George A. Azerodt, Lewis Payne, Michael D. Laughlin, Edward Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Mary E. Surratt, and Samuel A. Mudd". Holt signs as Judge Advocate General. Some manuscript insertions are included throughout the document.

Holt served as commissioner of patents, 1857–1859; served as U.S. postmaster general, 1859–1861; served as Secretary of War, 18 January–5 March 1861; was appointed the first Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army, 3 September 1862; prosecuted the John Wilkes Booth conspirators in the Lincoln assassination and was accused of suppressing evidence; issued a pamphlet, Vindication of Judge Advocate General Holt From the Foul Slanders of Traitors, Confessed Perjurers and Suborners, Acting in the Interest of Jefferson Davis, 1866; resigned as Judge Advocate General, 1875; died in Washington, D.C., on 1 August 1894.

Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Herold, David E., 1844-1865
Atzerodt, George A., 1835-1865
Payne, Lewis, 1845-1865
O'Laughlin, Michael, -1867
Spangler, Edward, 1825-1875
Arnold, Samuel Bland, 1834-1906
Surratt, Mary E. (Mary Eugenia), 1820-1865
Mudd, Samuel Alexander, 1833-1883

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