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    George Andrew Atzerodt (June 12, 1835 – July 7, 1865) was a German American repairman, Confederate sympathizer, and conspirator in the assassination of...
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    Herold were assigned to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward, and George Atzerodt was tasked with killing Vice President Andrew Johnson. Beyond Lincoln's...
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    conducting a search, and was arrested. Powell, Mary Surratt, Herold, and George Atzerodt were sentenced to death by a military tribunal, and executed at the...
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    Wilkes Booth. Booth visited the boardinghouse numerous times, as did George Atzerodt and Lewis Powell, Booth's co-conspirators in the Lincoln assassination...
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    Wilkes Booth. According to a statement made by associated conspirator George Atzerodt, discovered long after his death and recorded while he was in federal...
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    rode off, leaving Powell to fend for himself. Another conspirator, George Atzerodt, was supposed to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson, but he got drunk...
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  • Clark as Lewis Powell Carrie Lazar as Mary Surratt Tommie Turvey as George Atzerodt Walker Babington as Edman Spangler Josh Mikel as John Surratt Josh...
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    Execution of George Atzerodt, David Herold, Lewis Powell, and Mary Surratt on July 7, 1865, at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C....
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    )) David Herold, conspirator to assassination, after arrest, 1865. George Atzerodt, conspirator to assassination, after arrest, 1865. Lewis Powell, conspirator...
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    commandant of the notorious Andersonville POW camp (10 November 1865) George Atzerodt, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (7 July 1865)...
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  • assassination attempt. German immigrant and carriage repair business owner George Atzerodt is assigned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson, but becomes afraid...
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    to a number of people, including Louis J. Weichmann; John Surratt; George Atzerodt, and Lewis Powell. These last three men, David Herold and John Wilkes...
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    to Mathew Brady. In April 1865, Gardner photographed Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Michael O'Laughlen, Edman Spangler and Samuel Arnold...
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  • of George Atzerodt, Assassination Conspirator". Archived from the original on January 24, 2011. Retrieved February 14, 2016. "German-born George Atzerodt...
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    Four Lincoln assassination conspirators, David Herold, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt were executed on the grounds of the Arsenal Penitentiary...
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    loose-knit band of Confederate sympathizers, including David Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Powell (also known as Lewis Payne or Paine), and rebel agent...
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    armies. In 1865, George Atzerodt, a co-conspirator in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, was captured in Germantown. Atzerodt had come to...
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    President Abraham Lincoln—Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt—were hanged at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. While relatively uncommon...
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    Corps. Execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt on July 7, 1865 An alternate view of the execution, taken from the...
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    Execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt on July 7, 1865, after trapdoor has been sprung, at Fort McNair, in Washington...
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    coordinated with Booth's attack on President Abraham Lincoln and George Atzerodt's aborted attack on Vice President Andrew Johnson in order to maximize...
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  • condemned to death during the trial are hanged, including David Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Powell and Mary Surratt. Her son, John Surratt, escapes execution...
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  • own name, he also added those of his co-conspirators: Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, and David Herold. Later, Booth did get a drink at Peter Taltavull's...
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    line. George Atzerodt, co-conspirator with John Wilkes Booth Gustavus Richard Brown (1747–1804), Edinburgh educated physician, attended George Washington...
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    marshal during the trial of those accused in the Lincoln assassination: George Atzerodt, David Herold, Lewis Paine (also known as Lewis Powell), and Mary Surratt...
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    president, Andrew Johnson, was unharmed, because his would-be assassin, George Atzerodt, lost his nerve, so Johnson was immediately sworn in as president....
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  • conspiracy by Confederate supporters John Wilkes Booth, Lewis Powell and George Atzerodt to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson...
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    1866. Powell was hanged on July 7, 1865, along with David Herold, George Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt, who were also involved in the conspiracy. On April...
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    bid to help the Confederacy's cause. Johnson's would-be-assassin, George Atzerodt did not carry out his part of the plan, and Johnson succeeded Lincoln...
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    conspiracy by a military tribunal, along with Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Samuel Arnold, Edmund Spangler and Samuel Mudd. The...
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