CHAPTER XVI.

THE CONSPIRACY TRIAL--THE GRAND REVIEWS. Andrew Johnson Sworn in as President--Visit of a Massachusetts Delegation--What he Thought About Traitors and Treason--Arrest of Booth and his Accomplices--The Confederates had Supplied the Funds --Mrs. Surratt on Trial--The Male Prisoners--Execution of Some Conspirators and Imprisonment of Others--Grand Review of the Union Armies--General Meade and the Army of the Potomac--The Reviewing Stand--General Sherman and the Division of the Mississippi--Rebuff Given by General Sherman to Secretary Stanton--Sherman's Bummers.