Some of the Imprisoned at Fort Warren-- Part 1: Baltimore's Mayor and Mason and Slidell

In my last post, I mentioned that Robert Renwick had collected the signatures of Baltimore men and Confederates imprisoned at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor.  One of the men was none other than our Alexander M. DeBree.

Of the 124 signatures he gathered were the names of Baltimore's mayor, George William Brown and Confederate agents John Mason and James Slidell.  Maryland had been placed under martial law by the Lincoln administration for its Southern sympathies.  Mason and Slidell had been removed illegally from the British ship Trent, setting off the Trent Affair.

Also there were naval officers, many of whom who had refused to take an Oath of Allegiance to the United States after their vessels returned to port in the North.

Among them were Flag Officer Samuel Barron Sr., Commodores William Ward and Willaim Glassell (a pioneer in submarine warfare).

--Old B-Runner

Alexander M. DeBree, CSN-- Part 13: A List of Fort Warren Prisoners

From the Civil War in Northeast North Carolina Blog.

Continued from Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016.

"Autographs of Prisoners Confined at Fort Warren December 12th, 1861.  This was a letter book owned by Robert Renwick of Baltimore, Maryland.  He was released on parole Feby. 10th 1862."

Robert Renwick was a noted cabinet maker from Baltimore who was arrested for aiding the Southern Cause by procuring a large number of concealed weapons and enlisting men into the Confederate Army.

One of the men signing the book was Alexander M. DeBree.

--Old B-R'er