The Conspirators
Earlier today, I posted about the burials in Loudon Park Cemetery with connections to the Lincoln Assassination, but these are not the only graves in Baltimore that have a connection to that tragic event in our nation’s history.
There were ten people involved in the conspiracy to kill Lincoln and other government officials in April of 1865. Fully half of these (bolded) are buried in Baltimore cemeteries:
- John Wilkes Booth (Greenmount)
- Lewis Powell
- David E. Herold
- Michael O’Laughlen (Greenmount)
- Mary E. Surratt
- John Surratt (New Cathedral)
- Edman Spangler
- Samuel Arnold (Greenmount)
- George A. Atzerodt (Old Saint Paul’s)
- Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
Eventually, I’m going to get around to covering each of these on the blog – maybe around the anniversary of the trial – I just wanted to make a note about those local Baltimore connections while the topic is fresh.
Also, if you haven’t seen it – The Conspirator is a recent movie that does a pretty good job of telling the story of the trial. It’s not available to stream at this point, but Netflix has it as a DVD (and so does Amazon