The Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, 12 Stat. 755, entitled An Act relating to Habeas Corpus, and regulating Judicial Proceedings in Certain Cases, was an Act of Congress that authorized the President of
Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania introduced the bill.
Senator Lazarus W. Powell of Kentucky vehemently opposed the bill.
Mary Surratt
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Mary Elizabeth Surratt was an American boarding house owner in Washington, D.C., who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy which led to the assassination of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln in
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act (1863)
…subsequently deported to the South where he turned himself in for arrest as a Union citizen behind enemy lines and was placed in a Confederate prison. Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt (May 1823 – July 7, 1865) was an American boarding house owner who was convicted by a military tribunal of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate…
Surratt, c. 1860–1865
A woodprint depicting Surrattsville and the Surratt home, printed in 1867 in Harper's Weekly.
John H. Surratt Jr. (seen here in 1868) was a Confederate courier.
Surratt's boarding house, c. 1890, little changed from how it looked during her occupancy.