{"id":97885,"date":"2025-05-22T02:15:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=97885"},"modified":"2020-09-28T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T17:15:11","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-605","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-605\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday May 22<sup>nd<\/sup> 1864 [1865]<\/p>\n<p>This forenoon I went down to the Old Penitentiary and visited the Military Court in session there trying the conspirators. I had a fair opportunity to view the prisoners who all sat on a raised platform which ran <span class=\"italics\">across<\/span> across one side of the room. The room was not very large perhaps 25 or 30 feet square. There was nothing very striking about any of the prisoners excepting <span class=\"underscore\">Paine<\/span>, the one who attacked Mr Seward. He is a splendid specimen of a <span class=\"underscore\">Man<\/span> (<span class=\"underscore\">physicaly<\/span> 6 feet 1\u00bd inches) but his countenance indicated the desperado which he probably is. Herold looks rather weak minded or silly. Azterot like a low villin. Spangler has an Italian look. Dr Mudd is a very ordinary looking man with red hair or (rather Sandy hair and beard). Sam<sup>l<\/sup> Arnold does not <span class=\"underscore\">look<\/span> like a <span class=\"underscore\">bad<\/span> man. [M<sup>c<\/sup>]Laughlin <span class=\"underscore\">might<\/span> be one. Mrs Suratt sat at the end of the row by herself [draped?] in deep black and veiled. Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Hancock was there as a spectator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday May 22nd 1864 [1865] This forenoon I went down to the Old Penitentiary and visited the Military Court in session there trying the conspirators. I had a fair opportunity to view the prisoners who all sat on a raised platform which ran across across one side of the room. The room was not very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":95680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-97885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-diary-of-horatio-nelson-taft"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/horatio-nelson-taft-e1622981709398.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}