Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

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I was able to find the Senate Resolution referenced above:

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RESOLUTION

BY MR. MGDOUGALL, FOR Information in relation to the arrest of General Charles P. Stone. April 11, 1862.

-—Submitted, and ordered to be printed.

Mr. MGDOUGALL submitted the following resolution:

Resolved, That the Secretary of War be requested to inform the Senate, at once, on the following points, viz:

1. Whether or not Brigadier General Charles P. Stone has been arrested by any person in authority in the War Department or in the army of the United States; and if he has been so arrested, from whom the order for General Stone’ s arrest originally proceeded— whether the Secretary himself or the general then commanding the army of the Potomac.

2. Also, whether at the time of the arrest General Stone was not subject to the Articles of War, and entitled to the benefit of them; and if he was so subject and entitled, whether or not he was arrested for a violation of any, and which, of those articles; and on whose complaint General Stone was arrested, and by whom, if by any per sons, charges have been preferred against him; and that the Secretary of War be requested to communicate to the Senate the specifications under such charges, as fully as his present information will enable him to state them.

3. Also whether any, and if any, what, steps have been taken towards the preparation of such charges and specifications; and if any such steps have been so taken, whether or not the prosecution of the matter has been intrusted to the judge advocate general of the army, or of the army of the Potomac, or to some other, and what other, special judge advocate; and if not to either of said judges advocate general, why the case of General Stone did not take the customary course when a general officer is arrested; and whether or not either of the judges advocate above specially named has been, and when first, consulted in this matter.

4. Also, whether or not General Stone at any when and how often, either in person or by counsel, applied for an immediate trial; and whether he has not represented to the Secretary of War the injustice which he supposed would result to him from deferring his trial, by reason of the death of an important witness, in any matter connected with the administration of his late command upon the Potomac; and what answer, if any, has been made to such representation by or on behalf of General Stone.

5. Also whether or not the substance of such charges, more or less, has been in any, and what, way, and upon whose application, communicated to General Stone, and if not, why not; and if not, whether or not General Stone has applied, directly or indirectly, for such charges.

6. Also whether any, and what, privileges have enured to General Stone under the Articles of War Nos. 74, 79, 80, and 82, and Nos. 221 and 223 of the Revised Regulations of the Army; and what degree of confinement was originally ordered in reference to General Stone, and whether any, and what, change has been made, and when, from its original severity.

7. Also, if General Stone was not arrested for some alleged violation of the Articles of War, upon what pretense is he kept in close custody?