. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY COMMISSION FOR THE TRIAL OF THE LINCOLN CONSPIRATORS Here are two more members of President Johnsons court of nine army officers appointed for the trial of theLincoln conspirators, the Judge advocate, and one of his assistants. From left to right, they are: the Hon-orable Joseph Holt, Judge advocate; General Robert S. Foster; Colonel H. L. Burnett, who assisted JudgeHolt; and Colonel C. R. Clendenin. The two members of the court not shown on this and a precedingpage were General Albion P. Howe and Colonel C.
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY COMMISSION FOR THE TRIAL OF THE LINCOLN CONSPIRATORS Here are two more members of President Johnsons court of nine army officers appointed for the trial of theLincoln conspirators, the Judge advocate, and one of his assistants. From left to right, they are: the Hon-orable Joseph Holt, Judge advocate; General Robert S. Foster; Colonel H. L. Burnett, who assisted JudgeHolt; and Colonel C. R. Clendenin. The two members of the court not shown on this and a precedingpage were General Albion P. Howe and Colonel C. H. Tompkins. The military trial in Washington beforethis court was as extraordinary, as were the methods of treating the prisoners, the chief of whom were keptchained and with heavy bags over their heads. Looking back, the whole affair seems more like a mediaevalproceeding than a legal prosecution in the last century; but the nation was in a state of fever, and it wasnot to be expected that calmness would prevail in dealing with the conspirators. When the L
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