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I also wasn't aware that John Ford wrote a letter on behalf of Mary Surratt. I have done a bit of searching and can't find any reference to it.

Here's a question. I know Andrew Johnson was President and thus Commander-in-Chief and this was a military trial, but given that the conspirators plotted to also kill him and he believed Mary Surratt "the keeper of the nest that hatched the egg", shouldn't he have recused himself from deciding the question of a stay of execution?