. Civil War officers. Union . t that Gen. George wasguilty and that the DollyMadison House was thescene of the crime. AGITATING The snubbing has been a<.tating the Lincoln Group. It has been cited often oveithe years, but no one evoi said exactly where. Last night the whole thingcame to trial in an impromp-tu court in the former stableof the Cameron House whirladjoins the Madison House I and which is more ordinarilyoccupied by the Nation;-;! ! Aeronautic Space Agency. Gen. U. S. Grant 3d sat asj judge and Paul Gantt an<Paul Sedgwick of the LincolnGroup were opposing attor-neys. The jury
. Civil War officers. Union . t that Gen. George wasguilty and that the DollyMadison House was thescene of the crime. AGITATING The snubbing has been a<.tating the Lincoln Group. It has been cited often oveithe years, but no one evoi said exactly where. Last night the whole thingcame to trial in an impromp-tu court in the former stableof the Cameron House whirladjoins the Madison House I and which is more ordinarilyoccupied by the Nation;-;! ! Aeronautic Space Agency. Gen. U. S. Grant 3d sat asj judge and Paul Gantt an<Paul Sedgwick of the LincolnGroup were opposing attor-neys. The jury consisted of 12District historians, researchspecialists, and Civil Warstudents. WITNESSES A lot of witnesses werecalled, including one of thejurors, and each was armedwith reference books. Mr. Sedgwick opened by in-troducing a photostatic copyof John Hays diary for , 18(31 in which he said: 1wish here to record a portentof evil things to come. He said h« and the Presi-dent were waiting at quarters to see. This photo of Gen. McClellan (left) and President Lincolnwas made a year after the snubbing Incident, at the bloodybattle of Antietam—a battle in which the sentiment wasttiat the General didnt do as well as lie might have to Mr. Lincoln is Gen. George Custer, who was killedby the Sioux in 1876. him when the General came down word that ha wouldntin, walked by the open door ^S^ it happen? ( them, went upstairs erybody admitted last nightto bed and eventually sent that it had.) Cassius Marcel- lus Clay Keller, an amateurhistorian and a star witness,quoted a letter from to his wife, datedAug. 13, 1861, saying he wasliving. . in CommodoreWilks house, off JacksonSquare. Everybody presentknew that the Dolly MadisonHouse was later the Commo-dores house. DIRECTORY But an opposing witness,(hai les D u r m a n. of theSmithsonian, produced HieCongressional Directory of1861, which showed that residence was at15lh and
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