Quick questions about courtroom and charge

[Marty L.]

Thanks, Laurie. Yes, Col. Borch reports that "Holt (probably in concert with Stanton) personally selected the nine Union officers"--I'm just trying to find some documentary evidence of that assertion, which is often made. (The Turner chapter of the Trial does not say anything about it.)

As for the courtroom, I'm confident Betty is correct about the dimensions of the current re-creation--but is there reliable evidence anywhere that those were the dimensions in 1865? (It does seem roughly consistent with the "artist's renderings" that I've seen.)