[SamAdams76]

Interesting fact about the hanging of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. It was July 7, 1865 and the temperature in Washington, DC was over 100 degrees!

Yet the people standing around the scaffolding in the photos are dressed head to toe in wool suits and heavy overcoats. Apparently shorts and flip-flops weren't invented yet.

[yarddog]

I am sure most of those convicted were guilty but their trials were a travesty of justice. First of all there was no legal way for the Army to try them, but they just had the power so they did.

There probably were a few who were either totally innocent or guilty after the fact of aiding them knowing or maybe not knowing they were running from authorities.

[Stonewall Jackson]

A number of historians are starting to think that President Zachary Taylor might have died of a heat stroke in 1850. He had spent several hours out in the summer heat, attending the dedication of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument, then went back to the White House and took a nap still wearing his heavy, black wool suit.

This would have trapped the heat against his body and caused severe damage to his internal organs. Doctors did not know what heat stroke was at that time, so he would not have been treated for it.