Biography
Allen was a New York-born Richmond engraver arrested at West Point by Major Tomlin and jailed for expressing a desire for reunion. Said he opposed both war and disunion. The commissioner's derogatory mental-health judgments are not adopted as medical facts. Source: Official Records, series II, volume II, section2, printed page 1429, https://archive.org/details/cu31924079570259/page/n630/mode/2up. The undated memorandum supplies no independently established exact arrest or actual release day; discharge recommendations are not encoded as completed releases.
