John Surratt
John Harrison Surratt, Jr., was a courier for the Confederate Secret Service and the only one of John Wilkes Booth''s co-conspirators in the Lincoln assassination plot to escape hanging by the U.S. government. Fleeing vengeful authorities in the wake of the assassination, Surratt traveled through three continents and served in the Papal Zouaves before being arrested in Egypt. His 1867 trial was...
John Harrison Surratt, Jr., was a courier for the Confederate Secret Service and the only one of John Wilkes Booth''s co-conspirators in the Lincoln assassination plot to escape hanging by the U.S. government. Fleeing vengeful authorities in the wake of the assassination, Surratt traveled through three continents and served in the Papal Zouaves before being arrested in Egypt. His 1867 trial was...
