CWRT-DC Zoom Meeting on Lincoln Conspirators

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The next Zoom "meeting" of the Civil War Round Table of the District of Columbia will feature Gail Stephens and a discussion of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, focusing on Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd.

The CWRT-DC meetings are open to the public (ie, you need not be a member), and all participants are welcomed. Details are below.

Please mark your calendar to join us for

CWRT-DC'S NEXT ZOOM MEETING

ALL ARE WELCOME!

GAIL STEPHENS

will present

"Conspiracy: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln"

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

6:00 pm ET: Social Zoom

6:30 pm ET: Business Agenda

6:45 pm ET: Presentation

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VIA ZOOM
Meeting URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82893048523

Meeting ID: 828 9304 8523

Passcode: Zoom1861

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Meeting ID: 828 9304 8523
Passcode: 24641769

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About the Topic:

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. The usual focus of the story is on John Wilkes Booth, the prominent actor who shot the president. But Booth was aided by fellow conspirators--ten of them in all--who first planned to kidnap Lincoln and take him to Richmond. That plot ended in failure, though, and when Richmond fell, the conspirators’ goal turned to assassination.

Gail Stephens will discuss the conspirators and their participation in this drama, their trial and its outcome. Her particular focus will be on the roles of Mary Surratt, the only woman involved, and Samuel Mudd, a country doctor whose culpability has always been questioned.

About the Speaker:

Gail Stephens has a Bachelor’s Degree in International Politics from George Washington University and completed graduate work at Johns Hopkins and Harvard Universities. She worked for the Department of Defense for 26 years, retiring in 1994 as a member of the Department’s Senior Executive Service.

Upon retirement, Gail was able to indulge her lifelong interest in the history of the American Civil War. She volunteered at Monocacy National Battlefield for over fifteen years, lectured on the Civil War and the battle of Monocacy, gave battlefield tours, and wrote articles for numerous publications.

Her book on the Union commander at the battle of Monocacy, Shadow of Shiloh; Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War, was published in 2010. In 2011, it won the New York City Civil War Forum’s William Henry Seward award for best Civil War biography.

Gail and her husband moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2016. She is currently a volunteer at Coronado Historic Site and has written a soon-to-be published monograph on the excavation of an ancient pueblo and the recovery of the 15th century murals found in the pueblo.