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- tration distrusted. When the Judges of Brooklyn
issued writs of habeas corpus to bring up these political suspects, and inquire into the justice of their captivity, the remedy was to hurry the prisoners to Fort Warren in Boston Harbor, beyond the reach of the process of New York courts.
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FORT LAFAYETTE, N. Y. NARROWS.
Here also, in 1862, a division commander of McClellan's army was held prisoner. General Charles P. Stone, a graduate of West Point, was blamed for the disaster at Ball's Bluff.