Robin Wright portrays Surratt as a stoic and sympathetic figure, certain to win over filmgoers just as she did her lawyer.
Surratt was hanged, despite her apparent innocence, and the scene is both vivid and lurid as onlookers celebrate.
The nation had never executed a woman, and until Surratt heads to the gallows, Aiken thought he could save her.
To fully understand the case of Mrs. Surratt we must make her acquaintance as early as 1863.
Father Walter has every now and then bobbed up with the assertion of Mrs. Surratt's entire innocence.
What that "one subject" was Mrs. Surratt never mentioned to me.
From all this we can readily gather the attitude of Mrs. Surratt toward the government.
Surratt related to the doctor the difficulty they had in crossing the Potomac.
