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(11-30-2015 12:29 AM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  

(11-29-2015 08:09 AM)Jim Woodall Wrote:  Following Bull Run, John Holohan was arrested and charged with treason. Some of the charges included causing the stampede at Bull Run and also threatening the president. There are several articles in the local papers covering this. If my memory serves correctly, he was eventually let go after ye olde "loyalty oath." It makes for interesting reading.

see:
National Republican, 31 Jul 1861, pg 3 - stampede, threatening
National Republican, 22 Aug 1861, pg 3 - stampede

National Republican, 31 Mar 1861, pg 3 - Wigwam riot
National Republican, 2 Apr 1861, pg 3 - theft charge

I will have to look up the accounts of the trial and post those later.

Interesting! None of this was brought out against him in 1865, was it? Here's his loyalty oath:

Can anyone get the oath to enlarge enough to read? I have never heard of this and definitely want to know more about the incidents and the trial. No wonder Stanton was so upset when he first learned that Weichmann and Holohan had been allowed to go to Canada in search of John Surratt. He was convinced that the pair would disappear also.