Quick questions about courtroom and charge

[Marty L.]

Thanks, everyone. I, too, have a draft of the charges (an earlier one, I believe), in Stanton's apparent handwriting. So it's likely he had something to do with it. I'd be shocked if Holt were not involved, too. Joshua Kastenberg has written that Winthrop and Hosmer were also involved in the drafting, although he doesn't cite anything in particular. (And no, Laurie, the charges in this case were anything but standard-issue! There was no precedent for them, and no one understood exactly what was charged, or what the source of law was for the charges. It was an embarrassment, really. But that was par for the course in the War Department's military commissions, which were in effect making it up as they went.)

If anyone has further information about how the charges were drafted, or the size of the courtroom--or, for that matter, about who was responsible for choosing the members of the commission--I'd be very grateful, thanks.