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152 Series II Volume II- Serial 115 - Prisoners of War

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[Inclosure.]

List of Political Prisoners at Fort McHenry, Md., November 19, 1861.

Name. Residence. Date of Charge.

arest.

Richard Thomas --- July 8, Piracy and

Zarvona 1861 treason.

William W. Baltimore, Md. Sept. 15, Editor of Exchange

Glenn 1861 newspaper,

Baltimore.

George Julius Hagerstown, Oct. 16, Forwarding

Md. 1861 recruits to the

Confederate Army.

Robert W. Baltimore, Md. Oct. 26, Do.

Rasin 1861

R. C. Holland Dorchester Nov. 4, Visiting Virginia

County, Md. 1861 (per letter from

H. C. Hickson on

file at Fort

McHenry).

Thomas Baltimore, Md. Nov. 8, Disloyal (per

Mortimer 1861 letter from Major-

General Dix,

Baltimore, Nov. 8,

1861.)

James Martin . . . do. . . . . . do. Do.

. .

William F. --- Nov. 13, Lieutenant in the

Engle 1861 rebel army.

Jonah --- . . . do. Raising a rebel

Potterfield . . flag on his house

and applying to

the rebels for

arms to defend it,

&c.

Edward C. Princes Anne, Nov. 16, Correspondence

Cottrell Sommerset 1861 with rebels.

County, Md.

Glenn, Julius, Holland, Mortimer, Martin and Cottrell refuse to take the oath of allegiance.

JOHN A. DIX,

Major-General.


HDQRS. CITY GUARD, OFFICE OF THE PROVOST-MARSHAL, Washington, D. C., November 26, 1861.

Hon. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

SIR: Agreeable to your request of the 23rd instant I have the honor to herewith submit to you a list of sate prisoners now in my custody, to wit:

Name. Residence. Received.

James A. Donnelly Georgetown, D. C. Aug. -, 1861

Frank Rennehan Washington, D. C. Aug. 23, 1861

Mrs. R. O'N. Greenshow . . . do. . . Do.

William J. Walker . . . do. . . Do.

Rudolph Watkins Georgetown, D. C. Sept. 23, 1861

George S. Watkins . . . do. . . Do.

George F. Harbin Washington, D. C. Do.

William F. Getty . . . do. . . Oct. 1, 1861

Thomas A. Jones Pope's Creek, Md. Oct. 4, 1861

Samuel G. Acton Anne Arundel County, Do.

Md.

E. B. Grayson Washington, D. C. Oct. 7, 1861

Summerfield Ball Fairfax County, Va. Oct. 9, 1861

Benjamin Jackson Cross Seneca, Md. (?) Oct. 11, 1861

William F. Moore Fairfax County, Va. Oct. 13, 1861.

James W. Offutt Georgetown, D. C. Oct. 14, 1861

John W. Burson Washington, D. C. Do.

Alfred Nettleton Middle Haddam, Conn Do.

Hugh Adams Vicinity of Vienna, Oct. 19, 1861

Va.

G. W. Gunnell . . . do. . . Do.

A. B. Williams . . . do. . . Do.

William Oswald Dundas Bladensburg turnpike Nov. 1, 1861

Withers Smith Fairfax County, Va. Nov. 2, 1861

Samuel F. Anderson . . . do. . . Do.

Philip H. Linton Washington, D. C. Nov. 6, 1861

John Brown New Orelans, La. Nov. 7, 1861

Isaac Ballenger Saint Joseph, Mo. Do.

Rutson Maury Livepool, England Nov. 8, 1861.

O. Allen Scanland Powell's Mills, Nov. 11, 1861.

Fairfax County, Va.

John McDaniel . . . do. . . Do.

Miss Stewart, alias Wheeling, Va. Do.

Ellie M. Pool

George Dent, sr. Pope's Creek, Md. Nov. 14, 1861

George Dent, Jr. . . . do. . . Do.

Riley Nash Fairfax County, Va. Nov. 18, 1861

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. PORTER,

Brigadier-General and Provost-Marshal.


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