John H. Waring

John H. Waring, of Prince George's County, Maryland, was held roughly eight months without trial on charges of Southern sympathy, sheltering and feeding Confederate soldiers, and directing contraband mail, his property confiscated and his family banished, before being pardoned by President Lincoln. 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.'