The Truth About The First Woman Executed By The US Government

How did Mary Surratt end up on the scaffold? Was it her love for the South - or her son chickening out on the trail? The tale of her death (and maybe her afterlife) is a haunting one.
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[@GrungeHQ]

What do you think about the verdict and punishment for Mary Surratt?

[@patrickrichardson1036]

50% wrong associates, wrong place, wrong time. 50% Southern sympathies.

[@johngarnergarner6724]

I think that any in depth look at the case would lead one to conclude that Mary was involved, particularly her involvement in having weapons stashed away for Booth. Seems to me that Mary was definitely part of the conspiracy

[@user-pe3rp3cz4c]

If she did it, then it was the right thing to do. I'm kinda skeptical about the only evidence against her was from two prisoners with nooses around their neck Louis and John Loyd it seemed like they would say anything to not be hung. That's the evidence they used to convict her that's kinda sketchy. I wish there would have been some actual evidence linking her to the conspiracy.

[@gregd4633]

GULITY!!!!!!!

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@miketaverner4451]

If her son had stood up for his mother like any son should, it would have been the other way round.

[@Coco-xw3wp]

Kids learn from home, when people are racist to the point of murder John definitely learned his views from Mary... She wasn't innocent.

[@vilstef6988]

On the way to the scaffold, Lewis Paine called out that Mary was innocent. A surprising and generous gesture from someone who was also condemned!

[@fredschaefer2342]

Why did he say that ? he shows up at her home to do work at Midnight with a pick axe ? I guess he can lie then he can lie on his way to die!

[@praisebrown6113]

@vilstef6988 True he did say that in fact he said and I quote Mrs. Surratt is innocent she doesn't deserve to die with the rest of us. Those words hit deaf ears and no one listened.

[@donsena2013]

The entire Confederate army was sympathetic to the Southern cause. The Government was not about to hang every Southern soldier who survived the war and, of course, didn’t. Among all the videos that I have seen (and heard) on Mary Surratt’s probable guilt, none have thus far shown what she actually contributed to the assassination. The “egg” was not hatched in her boarding house, but in Booth’s mind when he heard Lincoln’s second inaugural address, implying his intention to grant citizenship to the recently freed slaves. Booth had resolved that it would be the last speech that he would ever give. If she had been given a civilian trial, there’s almost no chance that she would have been given a death sentence. As it was, a military trial was held to forestall any appeals that would have followed a regular jury trial It otherwise seems that the three men could just as well have met in a tavern, an inn or a hotel room. The owner of the establishment would not have automatically become guilty of anything simply because a patron decides to plot a crime while staying there. Of the four, only Louis Payne and David Herold should have been found guilty of anything, although not of the assassination itself. The crime was entirely planned by Booth, while none of the four actually helped murder Lincoln. Payne and Herold were guilty of violent actions against Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and his son, who tried to protect him. George Atzerodt was assigned the task of killing Andrew Johnson, but he did not so much as try to kill him, possibly because security was intensified around Johnson. He was not even personally guilty of attempted murder, much less of doing anything that contributed to the murder of Lincoln. I have always thought that if Booth had been captured alive, he would have been the only one to hang. As it was, the Country needed to expiate its anger somehow, and these four were used for that purpose.

[@TonyRomearound]

Poor Mary

[@leesashriber5097]

This was very interesting! Thank you! Happy Thanksgiving 😊🦃

[@albertdehn8381]

Thanks for sharing Happy thanksgiving 👍😀

[@m.f.richardson1602]

Always interesting Thank you Peace 💕🇺🇲

[@jujubees5855]

The "trial" was a total violation of their constitutional rights.

[@kevinbergin9971]

Wasn't there a visit by 2 Washington DC police detectives when one of the conspirators-I think the one who attacked Secretary Seward-came in the door?

[@terrybardy2848]

Yes. His name was Lewis Paine or Powell. He was Booth's right hand man in a matter of speaking. He also was a former Confederate soldier from Florida who was taken in my Booth when he was down and out. One of his words on the scaffold he yelled, "Mrs. Surratt is innocent! She doesn't deserve to die with the rest of us!" What did her in is when he went to the boarding house and said he was there to dig up pipes. I hope this helps.

[@choreboy3906]

Forget that. No on has any regard for History or what it is capable of teaching. Only far left views are acceptable for this lens.

[@ministryofyahushua3065]

I went to Surrattsville high school in Clinton Maryland.

[@alphaomega8373]

Better to have her haunting than plotting.

[@jasonb9394]

While I agree, a real man would never let his innocent or guilty mother hang for him, that said, most mothers would die for their sons, guilty or not.

[@deborahdauray8933]

Thank you for sharing

[@tomjones2202]

It's kind of odd that when people are committing a wrong they don't want to be looked at has having committed a wrong when its over. I"M INNOCENT!!!,,, Well,,, she knew completely what she was doing was wrong and she sure didn't stop. So,, guilty is as guilty does... What did they say in Shawshank, "we're all innocent".!!

[@Angl0sax0nknight]

It’s not that she was guilty or innocent, the MILITARY should never try civilians. It was a kangaroo court from the start. It’s a sad stain on US history.

[@fredschaefer2342]

@@Angl0sax0nknight She got what she deserved!

[@user-hu5iw4lb4x]

Yep ❤

[@garymorris1856]

I do not claim to know for a certainty about her guilt, however, I do question the legal validity of her, and the others being tried in a military court.

[@PaiviProject]

Wow.

[@jessekauffman3336]

Crazy

[@SteveDMV]

The U.S. Post Office renamed the town to Robeysville, due to the notoriety of the Surratt name. In 1879, Robeysville was renamed to Clinton where I grew up over 25 years.

[@AlexJEdits]

Interesting historical story

[@horsewomn]

My Mom had to visit the Fort next to the either military barracks or a jail and the gallows is now a tennis court. I hade to sit in a cold dark room waiting for my mom. I became very frightened because I kept hearing a woman cry sobbing please don’t let me fall. Scared the crap out of me. I was just a kid then maybe 8 or 10 years old.

[@Olkv3D]

"A Cessationist tobacco farmer." - Geez. There's less whitewash in "Tom Sawyer".

[@yeeshatraveller]

I find it unlikely that 'the jury is still out as to Mary's guilt'. 4:18. Anyone on that jury would surely have passed by now.

[@Christ_Follower1020]

Interesting

[@Michael20]

It's mr ma'am sir.

[@Ashas.Garden]

I enjoyed this.

[@tomdaley9154]

You said "how she ended up on the scaffold" i think you meant "gallows"

[@paulhudson4254]

God Bless Mary and John for all they did or were accused of doing! Amen 🤠

[@stumarston6812]

Hi Paul.

[@TonyRomearound]

The South shall rise again

[@mullhollandmace7271]

For the truth....Fifty Years in the Church of Rome . Charles Chiniquy

[@hidesbehindpseudonym1920]

Why would her being in her Ford is have been a reason for leniency it's neither Young nor exceptionally old. Even back then people would have lived into their sixties

[@EvanCleary]

What?

[@terrybardy2848]

Life expectancy was much shorter in 1865 than it is now.

[@randomoverpopulatedworldid3286]

witch trials didn't count? interesting.

[@billsanders5067]

At the time of the Salem Witch trials, the U.S Government did not exist.

[@charleskeefer3043]

Crates from the wiggles of brown, Custer, and no mandate of the one downed of sand flash.

[@heatherlynn3438]

That picture is a MAN!

[@iwokeuplikethis3486]

That's what I said lol it's so obvious to some of us

[@brendabernstein286]

My thoughts exactly

[@floydsemlow8253]

I guess all women look like men especially if you were a tobacco farmer back in the early 1900s LOL. Couldn't tell the difference between men and women then no more than you can now unfortunately 🤦‍♂️😂

[@crlaf1978]

How incredibly ignorant.

[@Pomshka]

We can always tell

[@DamianAndRuth]

This story has everything to do with the Roman Catholic Church

[@christineobrien7707]

How so? Please give me some details. I do know that she converted to Catholocis?in her teenage years

[@mathewjohnson79]

Based on what

[@charlesosbun9381]

I am true Southerner, having bee born in South Carolina. From a Southerner’s perspective, we call the war “The War Between the States,” or better yet, “The Recent Unpleasantness.”

[@corinnepmorrison1854]

Agreed... Nothing “Civil” about that conflict...

[@fredschaefer2342]

Sorry for your loses

[@sallybrown4947]

buhh bye Mary. You live on in a tube video 157 years later.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

She, was innocent, I have read the transcript. She was a distant cousin mine

[@fredschaefer2342]

She was guilty ! you need to read more transcripts

[@kirkmorrison6131]

@@fredschaefer2342 A lot of them were second hand testimony and other things that would not be allowed today.

[@perfectpeace352]

What transcript have you read?

[@kirkmorrison6131]

@@perfectpeace352 The Trial at the National Archives

[@perfectpeace352]

@@kirkmorrison6131 Thank you! I am curious if you know what John Surratt Jr went on to do...

[@julianaylor4351]

He was an awful president.

[@patrickrichardson1036]

Correct you are, he is responsible for more deaths than any other president, suspended states case laws, thwarted the constitution , gave monstrous false hope to the slaves and more placed martial law in force in various areas of the U.S. and more.

[@mathewjohnson79]

Lincoln or Johnson?

[@julianaylor4351]

@@mathewjohnson79 Johnson, typical vice president replacement, not up to the job. The other Johnson ( Lyndon B ) from the 20th century is the exception to that rule, because he was on the ticket, because the Democratic party over ruled the Kennedys.

[@mathewjohnson79]

@julianaylor4351 oh I agree, Johnson sucked. He was a terrible president. However, I'm not sure Lincoln was the great president that people make him out to be. Constantly ignored the constitution, had people arrested for disagreeing with his policies, and suspended writ of habeas corpus plenty of times. Lincoln actually did seem like a tyrant in many ways

[@madisonbumgarner6692]

That’s a man, baby!

[@christineobrien7707]

Thanks for that, Austin Powers!!👍

[@Sandyg1961]

Damn republicans, hating on the cross dressers even back then.

[@Kat-pr7qm]

That picture of “Mary” is most definitely a male!!

[@SpitOnMyNick]

That’s a man

[@iwokeuplikethis3486]

Not only is Mary a man but so are all of the first ladies

[@terrybardy2848]

Like Jackie Kennedy!?

[@iwokeuplikethis3486]

@@terrybardy2848 and the Bushes and Obama and Trump all of em all of the first ladies are men

[@michaelslater3464]

That does not look like a woman

[@BonShula]

That is a woman even if she was born a man

[@itoo3654]

@@BonShula NOT possible, although there is a groundswell trying to make it so. Nature says OTHERWISE; argue with your mother. That's that!!

[@TheMiccoliGroup]

Maria Miccoli 1 second ago nope... swinging hairy balls in a dress is still a dude in a dress.

[@BonShula]

@@itoo3654 You know there is a difference between biological sex and gender? Argue with your psychiatrist.

[@patrickrichardson1036]

@@BonShula Sure, I once had a horse that was born a camel he was just confused about eating oats and when I went to sell him all of the perspective buyers kept calling him a camel even though he believed he was a horse, no one believed me or him so I just let that horse loose in the desert and I heard he is still there, we could just never get him to answer the starting bell at the race track.