TY - JOUR
AU - Giesberg, Judith Ann
AB - 232 The Journal of American History June 2009 economic, political, and racial reality. Ott con- share a scaffold, the book offers period enthu- tends that they ultimately dealt with the loss siasts and scholars little that is new. of those antebellum promises through support Larson passes up opportunities to offer for the Lost Cause, an effort that they contrib- original insights on a number of unanswered questions about the assassination. For in- uted to through their own writings and recol- stance, why did U.S. lawmakers and military lections interpreting an idealized image of the men who adhered to traditional ideas about “Confederate belle.” gender and warfare make an exception of Sur- Ott’s argument about these adolescent ratt, choosing to try her (and her co-conspir- Confederates raises questions about the mo- ators) by military tribunal and to hang her tivations of young white women from non- for treason, despite a rush of requests to spare slaveholding or even Unionist families in the her? Was the U.S. government ahead of public South. Were they as activist in creating (and opinion or behind it when it delivered equal maintaining) a Confederate identity (or in pro- justice to Surratt and her male co-conspira- 
TI - The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln. By Kate Clifford Larson. (New York: Basic, 2008. xx, 263 pp. $26.00, ISBN 978-0-465-03815-2.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/27694803
DA - 2009-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-assassin-s-accomplice-mary-surratt-and-the-plot-to-kill-abraham-ryalsZ4Bv9
SP - 232
EP - 233
VL - 96
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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