General Hartranft informed Douglas that he had been brought to Washington due to the testimony of Henry Von Steinaecker, the former Union and Confederate soldier who was the very first witness at the conspiracy trial. In his later memoirs, entitled I Rode with Stonewall, Douglas described how his guard, “permitted me to go to a restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue to get a long drawn out breakfast, that he might view the parade.” At about noon, Douglas was taken to the Old Arsenal Penitentiary, where the trial of the conspirators was taking place. on the morning of May 24 when General Sherman and his army were marching in the Grand Review. On his transport to Fort Delaware, however, Douglas was first taken to Washington.
He was sentenced to two months in prison at Fort Delaware. Though paroled at the end of the war, Douglas had been arrested in May of 1865 for having been seen wearing his Confederate uniform in public. Henry Kyd Douglas was a former Major in the Confederate army who had served on the staff of General Edward Johnson. The decision to adjourn until Thursday had been decided the day before when possible witnesses had been unable to make their way to the trial room.
The court did not convene on this day, the second day of the Grand Review of the Armies.
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