Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators - Friday, July 7, 1865 - 1:26 pm
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LOC Title: Execution of the conspirators -- the drop
Photographer: Alexander Gardner (1821 - 1882)
Notes: The four condemned, from left to right: Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell (aka Payne), David Herold, and George Atzerodt. The execution is taking place in the Washington Old Arsenal Penitentiary - South Yard (now within Fort McNair). The Washington D.C. Evening Star paper for Friday, July 7, 1865 describes the "Scene at the Gallows":
"The criminals were now brought forward to the front of the platform and placed over the fatal drop. Atzerodt was the first up. His arms were bound behind him with strips of white cotton cloth. He was similarly bound at the knees and at the ankles. Herold, Payne, and Mrs. Surratt were bound in the same manner; the operation with the latter requiring more time than with the others, from the difficulty of dealing with her dress. The fatal nooses were now opened to admit the heads of the criminals, and the knots, as usual, were adjusted exactly under the left ear. Payne worked his neck in his noose as if dissatisfied with the adjustment, and the noose was widened a little to suit his ample neck.
Mrs. Surratt seemed to find it difficult to stand and said to those near her, "Please don't let me fall." This was just before the drop fell. Atzerodt, who seemed to grow excited as his last moments approached, just before the whitecap was placed over his head, attempted in a gasping manner to address the spectators. His parched lips would not obey the helm, and it was distressing to see him convulsively endeavoring to make himself intelligible. At last he managed to get out the words, "Gentlemen, take ware," meaning, evidently, "take warning." The white cap , was drawn over his head, as was done with the others, and it was supposed no more would be heard from the prisoners. But just before the drop fell Atzerodt's voice was again heard in muffled accents, saying "Goodbye gentlemen who are before me now. May we all meet in the other world! God help me now! Oh! Oh! Oh!" and as the last broken exclamations were on his lips the drop fell, and the four criminals hung quivering in the air."
To read the full account of "The Great Execution", see Image 3 of the Evening Star, Washington D.C. for Friday, July 7, 1865, at the Library of Congress website at this link:
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1865-07-07/ed-...
Red/Cyan (not Red/Blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting.
Execution of the Lincoln Conspirators - Friday, July 7, 1865 - 1:26 pm
3D red/cyan anaglyph created from stereo card (albumen) at Library of Congress - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog at:
LOC Title: Execution of the conspirators -- the drop
Photographer: Alexander Gardner (1821 - 1882)
Notes: The four condemned, from left to right: Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell (aka Payne), David Herold, and George Atzerodt. The execution is taking place in the Washington Old Arsenal Penitentiary - South Yard (now within Fort McNair). The Washington D.C. Evening Star paper for Friday, July 7, 1865 describes the "Scene at the Gallows":
"The criminals were now brought forward to the front of the platform and placed over the fatal drop. Atzerodt was the first up. His arms were bound behind him with strips of white cotton cloth. He was similarly bound at the knees and at the ankles. Herold, Payne, and Mrs. Surratt were bound in the same manner; the operation with the latter requiring more time than with the others, from the difficulty of dealing with her dress. The fatal nooses were now opened to admit the heads of the criminals, and the knots, as usual, were adjusted exactly under the left ear. Payne worked his neck in his noose as if dissatisfied with the adjustment, and the noose was widened a little to suit his ample neck.
Mrs. Surratt seemed to find it difficult to stand and said to those near her, "Please don't let me fall." This was just before the drop fell. Atzerodt, who seemed to grow excited as his last moments approached, just before the whitecap was placed over his head, attempted in a gasping manner to address the spectators. His parched lips would not obey the helm, and it was distressing to see him convulsively endeavoring to make himself intelligible. At last he managed to get out the words, "Gentlemen, take ware," meaning, evidently, "take warning." The white cap , was drawn over his head, as was done with the others, and it was supposed no more would be heard from the prisoners. But just before the drop fell Atzerodt's voice was again heard in muffled accents, saying "Goodbye gentlemen who are before me now. May we all meet in the other world! God help me now! Oh! Oh! Oh!" and as the last broken exclamations were on his lips the drop fell, and the four criminals hung quivering in the air."
To read the full account of "The Great Execution", see Image 3 of the Evening Star, Washington D.C. for Friday, July 7, 1865, at the Library of Congress website at this link:
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1865-07-07/ed-...
Red/Cyan (not Red/Blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting.