ten o'clock
With prayers and tears the mother sent her children away to the home of a friend in Montreal . A year passed before President Johnson in answer to the wife 's desperate pleading permitted her to visit her husband in prison . She arrived from Montreal on the cold raw morning of May 10 , 1866 , at four o'clock before day . There was no hotel at the fort at that time and the mother was compelled to sit in the desolate little waiting room with her baby without a fire until ten o'clock . General Miles called . His references to her husband were made in a manner which brutally expressed his hatred and contempt . She had been informed that his health was in so dangerous a condition that physicians had despaired of his life .