[Washington Navy Yard, D.C. George A. Atzerodt, a conspirator]

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the assassination of President Lincoln, April-July 1865. This photograph has backgrounds of dark metal, and was presumably taken on the monitors, U.S.S. Montauk and Saugus, where the conspirators were for a time confined.

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