noon
They had been Secessionists , some of them Knights of the Golden Circle ; they had belonged to Price 's Left Wing , and they flocked together . They were seven -- two lying unwell at the Overland , five now present in the State-House with the Governor and Treasurer . Wingo , Gascon Claiborne , Gratiot des Pères , Pete Cawthon , and F. Jackson Gilet were their names . Besides this Council of seven were thirteen members of the Idaho House of Representatives , mostly of the same political feather with the Council , and they too would be present at noon to receive their pay . How Ballard and Hewley came to be a minority of two is a simple matter . Only twenty-five months had gone since Appomattox Court-House . That surrender was presently followed by Johnston 's to Sherman , at Durhams Station , and following this the various Confederate armies in Alabama , or across the Mississippi , or wherever they happened to be , had successively surrendered -- but not Price 's Left Wing .