…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…
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…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…
…more posts on him. For an overview of Ned’s life, see my recent York Sunday News column below. York’s Ned Spangler–tried as part of the Lincoln Conspiracy “Ned” Spangler was…
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…
Cell area where Spangler and the other Lincoln prisoners were confined. Here is the second part of the letter published in October 25, 1865 in the Aledo [Ill.] Weekly Record,…
…will take you to my previous York Sunday News article on Spangler. Spangler was pardoned, along with Dr. Samuel Mudd and Samuel Arnold by President Johnson in 1869, perhaps in…
…being infamous for setting Booth’s broken leg that night, Dr. Mudd later took in his friend, Ned Spangler, so Ned figures in on the interpretation of that site. More on…
…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…
…interpreted. As I mentioned before, Ned Spangler eventually lived at the Mudd farm. He is buried nearby. More on Ned’s last years, some things he left behind and his final…
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…