Containing the Orders convening the Commission; | prisoners in Southern prisons; Attempted burning of
Rules for its guidance; Pleas of the accused to the Juris-
diction of the Commission, and for Severance of Trial;
Testimony in full concerning the Assassination, and
attending circumstances; Flight, pursuit and capture of
John Wilkes Booth; Attempted Assassination of Hon.
W. H. Seward, Secretary of State. Official Documents
and Testimony relating to the following plots: The
Abduction of the President and Cabinet, and carrying
them to Richmond; The Assassination of the President
and Cabinet; The Murder of President Lincoln by pres-
ents of infected clothing; The introduction of pestilence
into Northern cities by clothing infected with Yellow
Fever and Small Pox; Starvation and murder of Union

New York and other Northern cities; Poisoning the
water of the Croton Reservoir, New York; Raid on St.
Albans; Contemplated raids on Buffalo, Ogdensburg,
etc.; Burning of Steamboats on Western rivers, Govern-
ment Warehouses, Hospitals, etc.; Complicity of Jeffer-
son Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, Jacob Thompson, George
N. Sanders, Beverley Tucker, C. C. Clay, etc.; Jacob
Thompson's banking account in Canada; The mining of
Libby Prison, and preparations to blow it up; The "dis-
organization of the North" by a system of terrorism
and infernal plots; Arguments of Gounsel for the
Accused; Reply of Hon. J. A. Bingham, Special Judge
Advocate; Findings and Sentences of the Accused, etc.

COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY BENN PITMAN,

RECORDER TO THE COMMISSION.

PUBLISHERS:

MOORE, WILSTACH & BALDWIN,

25 WEST FOURTH STREET, CINCINNATI.

NEW YORK, 60 WALKER STREET.

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BY MOORE, WILSTACH & BALDWIN,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio.

APPROVAL OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, ETC.

MILITARY COMMISSION, PENITENTIARY, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
Tuesday, June 20, 1865.

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RIG. GEN. JOSEPH HOLT, Judge Advocate General: GENERAL-To satisfy the present public desire, and for future use and reference, it s certainly desirable that an authentic record of the trial of the assassins of the Late President, as developed in the proceedings before the Military Commission, should be published: such record to include the testimony, documents introduced in evidence, discussion of points of law raised during the trial, the addresses of the counsel for the accused, the reply of the Special Judge Advocate, and the findings and sentences.

Messrs. Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, publishers, of Cincinnati and New York, are willing to publish the proceedings in respectable book shape, and I will arrange and compile, on receiving your approval.

I respectfully refer to the printed work, "THE INDIANAPOLIS TREASON TRIALS," as an indication that my part of the work will be performed with faithfulness and care.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Indorsed and approved by

DAVID HUNTER, Maj. Gen. U. S. Vols.

AUGUST V. KAUTZ, Brev. Maj. Gen. U. S. Vols.

ALBION P. HOWE, Brig. Gen. U. S. Vols.
JAMES A. EKIN, Brev. Brig. Gen. U. S. Vols.
DAVID R. CLENDENIN, Lieut. Col. 8th Ills. Cav.

BENN PITMAN. Recorder to Commission.

LEWIS WALLACE, Maj. Gen. U. S. Vols.
ROBERT S. FOSTER, Brev. Maj. Gen. U. S. Vols.
T. M. HARRIS, Brig. Gen. U. S. Vols.

C. H. TOMKINS, Brev. Col. U. S. Army.
JOHN A. BINGHAM, Special Judge Advocate.

H. L. BURNETT, Brev. Col. and Special Judge Advocate.

BUREAU OF MILITARY JUSTICE, June 30, 1865. By authority of the Secretary of War, the publication of the work referred to in the foregoing letter, will be permitted, on the condition that it be made without cost to the Government, and that it be prepared and issued under the superintendence of Col. Burnett, who will be responsible to this Bureau for its strict accuracy.

J. HOLT, Judge Advocate General.

JUDGE ADVOCATE'S OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,
CINCINNATI, October 2, 1865.

In obedience to the directions of the Secretary of War, through the Judge Advocate
General, I have superintended the compilation and publication, in book form, of the
record of the trial of the conspirators at Washington, for the assassination of the
late President, Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of the Secretary of
State, Mr. Seward, other members of the Cabinet, and Lieut. Gen. Grant, and hereby
certify to its faithfulness and accuracy.
H. L. BURNETT,

Judge Advocate Dist. of Ohio, and Special Judge Advocate of the Commission.

THE entire testimony adduced at the trial of the assassins of President Lincoln is contained in the following pages. It has been arranged in narrative form, to avoid unnecessary repetitions, and to present the facts testified to by each witness in a concise and consecutive form. The phraseology is that of the witness; the only license taken with the testimony has been its arrangement in historical sequence, both as to generals and particulars.

Whenever the meaning of a witness was doubtful, or an evasive answer was given, or whenever the language of the witness admitted of a double interpretation, or of no interpretation at all, the questions of counsel, and the answers of the witness, have been retained.

B. P.

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BY MOORE, WILSTACH & BALDWIN,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio.

APPROVAL OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, ETC.

MILITARY COMMISSION, PENITENTIARY, WASHINGTON, D. C.,

RIG. GEN. JOSEPH HOLT, Judge Advocate General:

Tuesday, June 20, 1865. }

GENERAL-To satisfy the present public desire, and for future use and reference, it s certainly desirable that an authentic record of the trial of the assassins of the Late President, as developed in the proceedings before the Military Commission, should be published: such record to include the testimony, documents introduced in evidence, discussion of points of law raised during the trial, the addresses of the counsel for the accused, the reply of the Special Judge Advocate, and the findings and sentences.

Messrs. Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, publishers, of Cincinnati and New York, are willing to publish the proceedings in respectable book shape, and I will arrange and compile, on receiving your approval.

I respectfully refer to the printed work, "THE INDIANAPOLIS TREASON TRIALS," as an indication that my part of the work will be performed with faithfulness and care.