Thursday, April 2, 2020

Crime and Punishment: Arrests of Love, Stonnell (1863)

Alexandria Gazette
24 January 1863

Mr. Henry Love, and his two sons of Dumfries, Prince William county, Va., have been arrested and sent to the Old Capitol, in Washington, charged with aiding and abetting the Confederates in their late advance on Dumfries.

Rob. S. Stonnell, of Occoquan, has been arrested and required to give bail, for "useing seditious language and abusing President Lincoln."

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