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Police Marshall Kane Held Without Habeas Corpus

After an incarceration of seventeen months in four of the Forts of the United States, now converted by the Government into prisons which have no similitude but in the Bastile of France....

Southern Aegis and Harford County Intelligencer, December 13, 1862, p. 2.

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Posted on 12/21/2012 in Baltimore, Arrests of Maryland Citizens, Harford County, Suspension of Habeas Corpus

Book Loan on Trial

The Case of the State against Samuel B. Walton, removed from Harford to Cecil county, came up in Court on Tuesday last, for trial. Three witnesses were....

The Cecil Whig (Elkton), February 15, 1862, p. 2.

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Posted on 2/22/2012 in Arrests of Maryland Citizens, Freedom of the Press, Cecil County, Slave Insurrection, Harford County

Unfair Election?

We have been handed the following copy of a letter written by a gentleman of Harford county to a friend in Delaware soon after the late election.  It contains many truths....

The Southern Aegis (Bel Air), circa November/December 1861.

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Posted on 12/20/2011 in Arrests of Maryland Citizens, Freedom of the Press, Union Troops in Maryland, Harford County, Local Elections

Accusations of Election Fraud and Hypocricy

We wish every honest man in Harford county would call at the Clerk's office in the Court house and take a look at the bundle of county tickets....

Southern Aegis (Bel Air), December 9, 1861

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Posted on 12/8/2011 in Union Troops in Maryland, Harford County, Local Elections