Quick questions about courtroom and charge

[L Verge]

(09-28-2017 02:36 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(09-28-2017 12:44 PM)Marty L. Wrote:  (The formal detailing of the members to the commission was effected by Assistant Adjutant-General W.A. Nichols; but I don't think he was the one who chose the officers.)

(09-28-2017 12:50 PM)L Verge Wrote:  but it just seems that the choosing of the commission in such an important case would need THE higher-ups making the decision.

Theodore Roscoe agreed. In The Web of Conspiracy he wrote, "The Assistant Adjutant General lost no time in appointing the "nine competent military officers to serve as a Commission." There seems to have been no delay over the question of "competence." In fact, the celerity with which the Assistant Adjutant General selected the nine would almost lead one to suspect that the nine had already been hand-picked by someone a little higher up than an Assistant Adjutant General. It seems apparent that the selective hand belonged to Edwin M. Stanton."

If Roscoe had only named someone! The Assistant Adjutant General at that time was Townsend, I believe, but I agree that he was Stanton's handy man.