Military Units at the Arsenal on July 7, 1865

[Susan Higginbotham]

(07-07-2014 06:46 AM)BettyO Wrote:  Supposedly, Annie Surratt watched at a window in the upper part of the prison and then fainted dead away when they put the noose around her mother's neck. She was watching from the room of one of the trial recorders. I forget his name, but will try and find the article.

It was Doster who recorded Annie's watching from the window (see pg. 276).

https://archive.org/stream/lincolnepisod...6/mode/2up

Various reports have Annie accompanied by an unnamed female friend on the day of her mother's execution, first at the White House and later at the prison. Elizabeth Trindal believes the friend was Elizabeth Queen, based on a recollection by Queen's granddaughter in the Hall Research Library, but I vote for Nora Fitzpatrick myself, who remained close enough to the Surratt family to be one of the few invited to Mrs. Surratt's reburial.