Lincoln's non pardon

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Another little piece of irony related to this is that Edwin Lee's ancestral home, Bedford, was burned under orders of Gen. David Hunter in the summer of 1864, as Sheridan pursued his destruction of the Shenandoah Valley. Hunter received a very poignant letter from Lee's mother as to why the deed was done. Within a year of Bedford's burning, Hunter would head the military tribunal that tried the Lincoln conspirators.

And speaking of the Valley, there is some thought that Beall was hanged in retribution for Mosby's heist of a Union pay train that netted thousands of dollars that were never retrieved. Would this influence Mosby to assign his troops to assist in the Lincoln assassination?

BTW: One of those who sought a pardon for John Yates Beall was future President James Garfield - who would also be assassinated.

And one last tidbit - Beall's method of hanging was totally different from others that had occurred. Does anyone know how it differed?