What Happened to the Conspirator Bodies?

A tennis court at Fort McNair marks where the four Lincoln conspirators were hanged July 7, 1865.

All four bodies remained buried at the Arsenal Penitentiary for four years, until after Johnson's presidency ended.  Their bodies were then turned over to their families.

Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt's body was kept by the federal government for four years before being released to her daughter Anna and then was buried in Washington, D.C.'s

George A. Atzerodt's body was claimed by his brother and had it buried in an unmarked grave in Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C..   There is some question whether he is buried here.

Lewis Paine   Very interesting story.

David E. Herold--  Buried at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. at family plot.  No marker placed.  But now there is one.

--Old B-Runner