Stupid question?

[Susan Higginbotham]

(01-25-2016 11:30 AM)loetar44 Wrote:  

(01-25-2016 08:39 AM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  

(01-25-2016 05:13 AM)loetar44 Wrote:  I just saw a sample of “The Lincoln Assassination, the Evidence”, edited by William C. Edwards and Edward Steers Jr., published by the University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago in 2009, ISBN 978-0-252-03368-1. It has on page 550 a “List of prisoners held April 27, 1865”, on pages 551-53 a “List of prisoners committed since April 13, 1865” and on pages 1370-71 a “List of prisoners confined in Old Capitol Prison, June 1, 1865”. Does someone in this forum know what exactly is in these lists? Very curious about that.

http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/97..._90617.pdf

They're lists of people arrested and confined by orders of the Department of Washington, and lists of those being held in Old Capitol Prison, with their arrest dates and accompanying comments. If there's a specific person(s) you're interested in, I can check for you.

Thanks Susan and sorry I posted in the wrong thread. It was ment for the thread "20 additional prisoners in the Arsenal ??? ". That said, I am highly interested in

1. was Atzerodt indeed transferred April 27, 1865 to the Old Arsenal?
2. when was Burton N. Harrison transferred to the Old Arsenal?
3. when was Hartman Richter transferred to the Old Capitol Prison en when released?
4. were there more prisoners in the Old Arsenal than the one already mentioned?

Thanks

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(01-25-2016 10:56 AM)L Verge Wrote:  

(01-18-2016 02:32 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  I "third" Gene and Eva!

Seems logical, Kees. One thing I noticed, though, is the listing for Heard in "Memoirs of a Lincoln Conspirator" edited by Mike Kauffman. Heard is listed in the index, and the sole reference reads "accepts guns from O'Laughlen." The mystery to me is that after the word "Heard" Mike K. writes in parentheses "Hurtt?" Maybe I am misinterpreting, but it comes across to me as Mike thinking Arnold's reference to a "Mr. Heard" might actually be a reference to a "Mr. Hurtt." I must say I do not ever recall seeing a reference to a person named Hurtt in Lincoln assassination literature, so I have no clue to whom Mike might be referring, or why he put "Hurtt?" in parentheses after "Heard."

I finally did some checking on "Mr. Hurtt." My brain has not failed me completely! There were actually two DR. Hurtts who lived in Piscataway, Prince George's County, Maryland (five miles from Surrattsville), which was often frequented by David Herold and the people well-known to him before the war when he and his father hunted with many of them. Thomas Harbin also lived there for awhile.

One of the doctors died in 1863, so that rules him out, but Dr. Edgar Hurtt was very much alive in 1865. I haven't anything to link him to the conspiracy, but I just remember Kauffman and/or Hall and Gaddy floating his name around -- possibly in connection to the Doctors' Line or the Booth plot.

Good work Laurie !!!

Kees, I posted some documents about Richter on the "20 Additional Prisoners Thread" just now. (I hope you can see them now. They weren't showing up a few minutes ago but seem to be OK now.)

According to Hartranft's letter book, Burton Harrison was taken to the Old Arsenal on May 26 and put in cell 165.