Splinter of wood attributed to the execution stand scaffold used to carry out the death sentences of Lincoln assassination conspirators Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt, displayed under a magnifying lens and double-matted with an image and caption to an overall size of 8 x 10. The caption reads: "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." In fine condition.
