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T. Jefferson Shreve

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1800s
State:Virginia
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Biography

T. Jefferson Shreve, of Loudoun County, Virginia, was imprisoned for guiding the Confederate Army on the Potomac and otherwise aiding the South. 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
Charges: Aiding the Confederacy (guiding the Confederate Army on the Potomac)
Institution State: Delaware