Note: Please see Day 3 (October 11) of the sale that features rare material relating to the Gettysburg Address.

Wood fragment from the scaffold used in the execution of Lincoln’s assassination conspirators. [Washington, D.C.], 7 July 1865. Wood approx. 1 in., matted and framed to 9 x 11 in. With photograph and information placard. 

Plaque to recto reads in full: “THE EXECUTION OF THE CONSPIRATORS / On July 7th, 1865 Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt were hanged from a wooden scaffold in the yard of the Old Arsenal Penitentiary in Washington, D.C. They had been found guilty as conspirators in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and William Seward Above are wooden fragments from the scaffold used in the execution secured as a souvenir by a soldier acting as a guard in the 1st US Veteran Volunteers.” 

Note: This lot cannot be packaged and shipped in-house. Successful bidders winning items marked as being packaged and shipped by a third-party service are responsible for paying the third party directly. We are happy to offer complimentary drop-off service to local third-party packing/shipping companies in Columbus, Ohio.

[Abraham Lincoln, Politics, Mary Todd Lincoln, 1860 Election, Election of 1860, 1864 Election, Election of 1864, Lincoln Assassination, John Wilkes Booth] [Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Relics, Militaria]