…of my recent York Sunday News column and it appears below: Edman Spangler’s eloquent statement of innocence Native Yorker Edman “Ned” Spangler served nearly four years imprisoned at Fort Jefferson…
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Ned Spangler, taken from a larger set of depictions of the conspirators Of what was Edman Spangler guilty? Tried together with seven others accused in the Lincoln Conspiracy, York native…
…Spangler—life as a prisoner at Fort Jefferson Several years ago I wrote a column on Edman “Ned” Spangler (1825-1875), York native tried with the Lincoln conspirators. I noted that Spangler…
Baptismal record, First Reformed Church, York, Pa. I have been heavily researching “Ned” Spangler for my next York Sunday News column. Spangler was one of the defendants in the Lincoln…
…here which I am innocently. Yours Most Respectfully Edman Spangler.” The other three prisoners sent to Fort Jefferson with Spangler: Dr. Samuel Mudd, Samuel Arnold and Michael O’Laughlen had been…
…by Ned Spangler One of the last acts of President Andrew Johnson before he left office in March 1969 was to pardon Spangler, Mudd and Arnold. Spangler went back to…
Fort Jefferson in the 1860s. Digital source: U-M Library Digital Collections. Harper Weekly. Native Yorker Edman (Ned) Spangler was among the eight defendants tried for conspiracy in the assassination of…
…researching and writing about Edman “Ned” Spangler, the native Yorker who was a carpenter and stagehand at Ford’s Theater, working there shifting scenery on April 14, 1865, the night President…
Spangler house–reportedly the site of the Sherwood-Bland school There are two that I know of, and they are intertwined. One is Ned (Edmund, Edman, Edward) Spangler, the son of a…
…Mudd House Mudd and six others were found guilty of conspiracy; only Edman “Ned” Spangler, York native, was not found guilty of conspiracy, but only of aiding Booth’s escape from…