Biography
Hazwell Magruder, of Prince George's County, Maryland, was sentenced to a year for harboring and assisting Confederates, and denied parole to visit his dying wife. He was held as a civilian political prisoner at Fort Delaware during the U.S. Civil War, detained without trial under the wartime suspension of habeas corpus, and is named among the fellow prisoners in the Rev. Isaac W. K. Handy's 1863–1864 prison diary, 'United States Bonds; or, Duress by Federal Authority.'
Case
Fort Delaware