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completely inappropriate comment: sam elliot's latest "Beef: it's what's for dinner" radio spot has him saying: "sure, you can rub it."
oh. my. word.
~ ahem!
anyway:
last night i had a chance to go quickly through the Hanty records. definitely some interesting (and weird) peripheral stuff ~ the letters going back and forth about who wants what, confiscating food from Herold's sisters, and all the disorganization on the part of the army is pretty hilarious. at one point Hanty asks for ten additional guards. they send him 30 ~ stuff like that.
lots of discussion about underwear. seems to be the going concern. at some point in June, Hanty asks can he please take the rivets off of 161 so that he can change his underwear (it's not funny, but it makes me laugh). a later laundry bill indicates the rivets are still not off (everyone's underwear gets laundered except 161's). i think 161 is Herold and they do finally take the rivets off.
a list of effects is rather affecting. $12.71 they collected from Arnold needs to be sent to a relative. Anna Surratt signs a receipt for her mother's things. little things like that make you sort of cringe ~ details, man.
conspicuously missing (alas) are the manifold doctor's reports: Dr. Porter, Dr. Nichols, Dr. Gray (who saw everybody ~ and why? who knows!). there's also a mysterious letter from hancock (who has the worst handwriting in the known universe, by the way) saying not to tell the "Dr." the names of the prisoners ~ just their numbers. have no idea which doctor he is referring to (also possibly Gray?).
Hanty stops talking about the particulars at some point in early June ~ probably because Hancock could care less and everything was pretty much routine. but it's clear that Hanty wasn't writing everything down. there's a barber bill, but never mention of permitting the barbers in. there's the laundering bill, but no mention of changing out their clothes after a certain point beyond the ongoing underwear debate. Hanty requests a chair for Mrs. Surratt, but conspicuously omits any note that he sent to her house for one ~ or that he's feeding her off his own plate. he lists all the visitors (and complains about the lawyers coming late at night ~ quickly puts the kaibosh on that), but according to his records, Poppet visited Chammy once and never saw Client A out of the courtroom, which i find astonishing.
there's also the matter of Herold's written confession that has never seen the light of day. hmmm. wonder whatever happened that that little article.
Hanty's also pretty defensive. he writes hancock an almost terse letter about being accused of giving Mudd "special treatment" because there's not room enough on the dock so he had put him in a chair on the floor by the lawyer's table. he restrains himself from saying it, but the tone reads: look, you ding-dong, if i had room to squish him in, i would have, but you didn't make the dock long enough and instead of wasting everyone's time playing musical chairs, i just sat him where i could fit him. the next day they rearranged the guards to make the prisoners all fit (tightly) on the dock.
this anecdote, the business about the underwear, a very drunk officer reporting for duty, and one report about arresting anti-Lincoln cussers outside the prison made it worth the price of the reel.
: D
pictures of the day: the arsenal, where it all went down.
reporters were technically not allowed to publish pictures
of the interior of the prison or the courtroom,
though they were permitted to make sketches and
diagrams for posterity...
...many of which did get
published or have survived.
oh. my. word.
~ ahem!
anyway:
last night i had a chance to go quickly through the Hanty records. definitely some interesting (and weird) peripheral stuff ~ the letters going back and forth about who wants what, confiscating food from Herold's sisters, and all the disorganization on the part of the army is pretty hilarious. at one point Hanty asks for ten additional guards. they send him 30 ~ stuff like that.
lots of discussion about underwear. seems to be the going concern. at some point in June, Hanty asks can he please take the rivets off of 161 so that he can change his underwear (it's not funny, but it makes me laugh). a later laundry bill indicates the rivets are still not off (everyone's underwear gets laundered except 161's). i think 161 is Herold and they do finally take the rivets off.
a list of effects is rather affecting. $12.71 they collected from Arnold needs to be sent to a relative. Anna Surratt signs a receipt for her mother's things. little things like that make you sort of cringe ~ details, man.
conspicuously missing (alas) are the manifold doctor's reports: Dr. Porter, Dr. Nichols, Dr. Gray (who saw everybody ~ and why? who knows!). there's also a mysterious letter from hancock (who has the worst handwriting in the known universe, by the way) saying not to tell the "Dr." the names of the prisoners ~ just their numbers. have no idea which doctor he is referring to (also possibly Gray?).
Hanty stops talking about the particulars at some point in early June ~ probably because Hancock could care less and everything was pretty much routine. but it's clear that Hanty wasn't writing everything down. there's a barber bill, but never mention of permitting the barbers in. there's the laundering bill, but no mention of changing out their clothes after a certain point beyond the ongoing underwear debate. Hanty requests a chair for Mrs. Surratt, but conspicuously omits any note that he sent to her house for one ~ or that he's feeding her off his own plate. he lists all the visitors (and complains about the lawyers coming late at night ~ quickly puts the kaibosh on that), but according to his records, Poppet visited Chammy once and never saw Client A out of the courtroom, which i find astonishing.
there's also the matter of Herold's written confession that has never seen the light of day. hmmm. wonder whatever happened that that little article.
Hanty's also pretty defensive. he writes hancock an almost terse letter about being accused of giving Mudd "special treatment" because there's not room enough on the dock so he had put him in a chair on the floor by the lawyer's table. he restrains himself from saying it, but the tone reads: look, you ding-dong, if i had room to squish him in, i would have, but you didn't make the dock long enough and instead of wasting everyone's time playing musical chairs, i just sat him where i could fit him. the next day they rearranged the guards to make the prisoners all fit (tightly) on the dock.
this anecdote, the business about the underwear, a very drunk officer reporting for duty, and one report about arresting anti-Lincoln cussers outside the prison made it worth the price of the reel.
: D
pictures of the day: the arsenal, where it all went down.
reporters were technically not allowed to publish pictures
of the interior of the prison or the courtroom,
though they were permitted to make sketches and
diagrams for posterity...
...many of which did get
published or have survived.
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