Record of Arrests for Disloyalty, 1861 and 1862
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Title
Record of Arrests for Disloyalty, 1861 and 1862
Description
This record catalogues the charges brought against Dr. William B. Day, his half-brother Dr. John T. Day, and their co-conspirators: John B. Farr, John and Charles Coleman, Richard Gunnell, Philip Carper, and John T. DeBell. These men were all arrested on November 27th, 1861 and were held in Old Capitol Prison awaiting trial.
Creator
Old Capitol Prison
Source
National Archives, Record Group 59, A1 958
Publisher
War Department
Date
February 15th, 1862
Contributor
Kristin Mattice
Language
English
Type
Government Document
Document Item Type Metadata
Text
John B. Farr James Farr
John T. Day Wm B. Day
John Coleman Charles W. Coleman
Philip Carper R.H. Gunnell
John T D.Bell
These men were arrested about the 27th of November 1861 by a Cavalry Company in Genl McCall’s Division, at Drainesville Va. and having been brought to Washington were committed to the Old Capitol Prison.
They were charged with having been open [98] and unrelenting secessionists and that they in August last awaited (^in ambush) the coming of some Federal Pickets, in ambush near Drainesville, Va. and murdered two of them, wounding one.
Brig. Gen Porter informs the Secretary of State in a letter stated the 17, Jan 1862, that an order was made by Maj. Gen’l McClellan, commanding that all the prisoners in custody suspected of having participated in the murder of the U.S. Pickets near Drainesville, Va. in August last be held until a trial can be had in their cases; and that the evidence in each case forward be reported to him.
I have the power to report here what was stated in the report made to you in the case of J. B. Farr, that sometime during the month of August last, a midnight attack which had been previously named by several citizens of the village of Drainesville and vicinity, was made by them, upon a squad of union Pickets who were on duty on Lowes Flats, near Drainesville, killing two and wounding one, and afterwards committing upon the dead bodies such acts of inhuman and sacrilegious nature, that they will challenge the civilized world to furnish a parallel.
The following are the names of (^the) persons now under arrest and confined in the Old Capitol Prison, who are suspected with a large array of evidence against them, of the murder and acts of barbarity aforesaid: viz. John B. Farr, “John T. Day, Wm B. Day, Charles W. Coleman, John “Coleman, John T. D.Bell, R.H. Gunnell, “Philip Carper, James Farr.”
The persons mentioned above, remained in custody at the Old Capitol Prison Feby 15. 1862.—
John T. Day Wm B. Day
John Coleman Charles W. Coleman
Philip Carper R.H. Gunnell
John T D.Bell
These men were arrested about the 27th of November 1861 by a Cavalry Company in Genl McCall’s Division, at Drainesville Va. and having been brought to Washington were committed to the Old Capitol Prison.
They were charged with having been open [98] and unrelenting secessionists and that they in August last awaited (^in ambush) the coming of some Federal Pickets, in ambush near Drainesville, Va. and murdered two of them, wounding one.
Brig. Gen Porter informs the Secretary of State in a letter stated the 17, Jan 1862, that an order was made by Maj. Gen’l McClellan, commanding that all the prisoners in custody suspected of having participated in the murder of the U.S. Pickets near Drainesville, Va. in August last be held until a trial can be had in their cases; and that the evidence in each case forward be reported to him.
I have the power to report here what was stated in the report made to you in the case of J. B. Farr, that sometime during the month of August last, a midnight attack which had been previously named by several citizens of the village of Drainesville and vicinity, was made by them, upon a squad of union Pickets who were on duty on Lowes Flats, near Drainesville, killing two and wounding one, and afterwards committing upon the dead bodies such acts of inhuman and sacrilegious nature, that they will challenge the civilized world to furnish a parallel.
The following are the names of (^the) persons now under arrest and confined in the Old Capitol Prison, who are suspected with a large array of evidence against them, of the murder and acts of barbarity aforesaid: viz. John B. Farr, “John T. Day, Wm B. Day, Charles W. Coleman, John “Coleman, John T. D.Bell, R.H. Gunnell, “Philip Carper, James Farr.”
The persons mentioned above, remained in custody at the Old Capitol Prison Feby 15. 1862.—
Collection
Citation
Old Capitol Prison, “Record of Arrests for Disloyalty, 1861 and 1862,” My Cemetery, accessed April 19, 2024, https://mycemetery.org/items/show/1125.