Trivia 6-17-15 Exterminate

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Ft. Lesley McNair now is on the land where the hangings took place at of the Old Arsenal Penitentiary in Washington, D.C.. The building the trial was held was Grant Hall. It stands today. The site of the gallows is now a tennis court.
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I bet there were a lot of places where conspirators were executed :wink:

I suspect that the question is regarding the ones who were found guilty of conspiring to assassinate Lincoln. That place would be the yard of the Old Arsenal Penitentiary (it's official name during the time of the execution; the first Federal Prison, also known as "Washington Arsenal") in the District of Columbia. Now named Fort Lesley J. McNair, is the current home of the National Defense University, the Inter-American Defense College, and the United States Army Center of Military History. Had many names and purposes (all military, including Hospitals and Colleges/Universities) from then to now...
 
On the sunny afternoon of July 7, 1865, Mary Surratt was hung along with three of Booth's conspirators in the Washington Arsenal Penitentiary's prison yard. Her body was then buried nearby on the prison grounds before being re interred at Washington's Mt. Olivet cemetery in 1869 .But, is that the end of Mary Surratt's story? Does this controversial figure-- linked just or unjustly, to one of our nation's most infamous crimes-- still linger somehow on the grounds of the former Washington Arsenal Penitentiary, now part of Fort McNair, where she was imprisoned, tried, and executed.
Source-http://civilwarwashingtondc1861-1865.blogspot.com/2011/10/does-mary-surratts-ghost-haunt-fort.html
 
Assuming this refers to four of the Lincoln Assassination conspirators, the execution took place in a courtyard of the Washington Penitentiary, which had been repurposed as the Washington Arsenal in 1862. One building survives - that in which the trial of the conspirators was held - located in Fort McNair, Greenleaf Point.

On the off chance.... four men were hanged August 22, 1864 for conspiracy in the town of Quitman, GA. John Vickery (a white man) and three slaves named Nelson, George and Sam planned to take over an arsenal and foment a slave insurrection.
 
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