20 additional prisoners in the Arsenal ???

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Jefferson Davis’ party was captured on May 10, 1865, including his private secretary, Burton N. Harrison. Davis’ fate was imprisonment at Fort Monroe, while Burton Harrison ended up a prisoner at Fort Delaware. Initially, however, Harrison was held briefly at Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C., before transferring to Old Arsenal Penitentiary for two months, during which the Lincoln conspirators were incarcerated, tried, convicted and sentenced. In “Fort Delaware Notes, February 2011,” R. Hugh Simmons says that Harrison’s close affiliation with Davis, who was under suspicion for conspiracy in the Lincoln case, merited him “solitary confinement in a 4-by-8-foot dark cell for five weeks.” Permitted a daily walk on the grounds, Harrison witnessed “the gallows and four newly filled graves” of those who already paid the price. In the fall of July 1865 Harrison was transported to Fort Delaware. He was released on Jan. 25, 1866.

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Michael W. Kauffman in "American Brutus”, p 331: “So on April 28, Stanton ordered Major James Benton, commanding officer of the arsenal, to ready the prison building. Cells were cleaned and inspected, shuck mattresses were delivered, and a detail was assigned to guard the place. The transfer was made on April 29, when David Herold, Lewis Powell, Mike O’Laughlen, Sam Arnold, Ned Spangler, and JOAO CELESTINO, the sea captain, were led under cover of a latenight downpour to steamer Keyport. The ship took them to the old penitentiary.” Atzerodt ??? Was he transported another date?