Judicial Murder of Mrs. Surratt

[JMadonna]

I’d be interested in Johnson’s contemporaneous thoughts on Surratt and the trial, if they exist, but I’m sure there is nothing there that documents in real time his spurious claim that she was railroaded.

Nope, just his 'recollection'.

At the time he was in a war with Stanton over who controlled Reconstruction, him or the congress. Any accusation, the more spurious the better, was used to cast Stanton as a villain was used for that purpose. Pretty close to what we're witnessing today.