The Surratt Courier

[Steve]

Thanks for posting the link!

[wpbinzel]

The September/October 2024 issue of The Surratt Courier has been posted on the Surratt Society's website. It is open to all interested and features additional information on John Wilkes Booth; his death and autopsy; Asia Booth Clarke; and Samuel Chester. The direct link is:
https://www.surrattmuseum.org/_files/ugd...17fdb9.pdf

[wpbinzel]

Well, we are a little late (but we are volunteers!) and the November/December issue of The Surratt Courier is now posted at https://www.surrattmuseum.org/_files/ugd...b96c02.pdf

The announcements are that the annual meeting of the Surratt Society is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, April 12, 2025, from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. EDT. There will be a brief business meeting, followed by two presentations. The meeting is open to all; HOWEVER, you will need to register in advance. Details on the speakers and registration will follow.

The Surratt Society also needs a volunteer to serve as Treasure on its Executive Committee.

In the November/December issue are articles by Philip Van Doren Stern on Lincoln's Christmas pardons; Jefferson Davis' 1864 Christmas; and Dennis Urban on the Lincoln conspirators. (Thank you, Dennis!)

[wpbinzel]

The January/February 2025 issue of The Surratt Courier has been posted on the Surratt Society's website and focuses on who actually held John Wilkes Booth's horse behind Ford's Theatre on the evening of April 14, 1865. There is also an article, in the wake of his passing, of President Carter signing legislation in 1978 to restore Jefferson Davis' citizenship. The Courier is free and open to all at: https://www.surrattmuseum.org/_files/ugd...48c8b6.pdf

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[wpbinzel]

The Surratt Courier 2025 March/April issue has been posted on the Surratt Society website at https://www.surrattmuseum.org/_files/ugd...68b4e4.pdf

The issue includes 1865 newspaper reports (remember, that's how you learned information in the mid-19th century) about Lincoln's assassination. Although many of those articles have appeared in a number of books over the years, I don't believe they have been collected in a single source.

In addition, the issue has the Zoom link to the 2025 Annual Conference, on Saturday, April 5, from 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. (E.T.). After a brief business meeting for the election of officers for the 2025-6 term, there will two presentations: Paul Severance will speak on the trial of the assassination conspirators; and Frank Gorman will speak on the effort to exhume Booth's body from Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore.

The meeting is free and open to all.

[Wesley Harris]

(03-30-2025 09:11 PM)wpbinzel Wrote:  The Surratt Courier 2025 March/April issue has been posted on the Surratt Society website at https://www.surrattmuseum.org/_files/ugd...68b4e4.pdf

In addition, the issue has the Zoom link to the 2025 Annual Conference, on Saturday, April 5, from 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. (E.T.). After a brief business meeting for the election of officers for the 2025-6 term, there will two presentations: Paul Severance will speak on the trial of the assassination conspirators; and Frank Gorman will speak on the effort to exhume Booth's body from Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore.

Enjoyed the annual "conference" Saturday. Thankful for those serving as Surratt Society officers who are keeping us going. Learned some things I did not know. Ordering Frank's book. Sure miss the in-person get-togethers though. Is there any other conference, etc. that covers our "topic" that we could use as a place to get at least some of us together?

[wpbinzel]

(04-06-2025 08:19 PM)Wesley Harris Wrote:  Enjoyed the annual "conference" Saturday. Thankful for those serving as Surratt Society officers who are keeping us going. Learned some things I did not know. Ordering Frank's book. Sure miss the in-person get-togethers though. Is there any other conference, etc. that covers our "topic" that we could use as a place to get at least some of us together?

Thank you for your very kind comments, Wes. We hope to get Paul and Frank's presentations posted on the Surratt Society website (as soon as we can find a teenager to show us how to do that...). I will post the link here on Roger's website.

We, too, miss the in-person meetings. The Colony South, where the Surratt Society conferences were held for years, no longer exists (it has been torn down, and nothing has been built to replace it), so to find a new venue; arrange for lodging and food; get speakers; and to tack on trips for Friday and Sunday, is very labor intensive. We would love to do it, but we do not have any staff to support us (and that is a discussion for another time). We are exploring getting the Surratt Society Booth Escape Route Tours back on the road again for the Fall.

As far as other venues, I know that there are some, such as regional meetings of various Civil War Round Tables and the Lincoln Group that meets in Gettysburg in the fall. They are not assassination-specific focused, but I will try to do a better job with getting them posted here.