Maryland free press., 1862-11-28
The trials and Tribulations OF Loyal
Citizens.

Messrs. Gardner; Rich and others have re
Gently published a Report addressed to Gov
crnor Bradford, concerning their arrests
From it we make the following extracts
They remained in confinement till half-past
nine o'clock next morning. At that hour
Major Jones and Captain II. Thrall appeared,
and the former said he should take them to
Light street wharf, and added if they intend
cd to resist he would like to know it before
hand. This question was an impertinence,
which no word or act Of the gentlemen con-
fined occasioned or justified. 1t probably
sprang from his consciousness of the wholly il
legal and oppressive character of his conduct
and his knowledge that the laws OF the United
States would have justified those arrested in
shooting him down, and that there were enough
loyal men present, outraged by his conduct,
to have chased his cavalry out of town, had
they thought that the only redress for the out
rage.
The prisoners were very careful not to cx-
cite the people, confident that the wrong would
be promptly roncdicd by the President, and
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the private grievances against Gen. Wool and
his tools, and that resistance on the spot,
however successful, might ada another en-
barrassment to the Government, in whose sue
cess no one is more interested or has greater
stake than the gentlemen arrested. They
were placed in carriages, followed by COM
pany of cavalry with drawn swords, taken to
the steamer Ballon refused an opportunity
to get change of clothes, or an overcoat or
shawl, or any warm wrapping; forbidden to
see or communicate with their families, OF to
relieve their anXietics.
One of the gentlemen arrested, Colonel
/, Thomas r.. Rich, being notary public, and
charged with important public duties to the
business community, when he found that he
was to lc removed in costody, requested of
Major Jones to be allowed an opportunity to
sign blanks, which would enable his clerks to
perform the duties of his Office but Major
Jones was as indifferent to the public conve-
niencc as lie had shown himself to the personal
comfort and the legal rights of the gentlemen
arrested, and no opportunity was Afforded
These gentlemen were kept under strict guard
/
alrymcn, while Rebel officers wore allowed to
walk the streets of Baltimore in uniform free
ly and without provisions of any sort We're
thrust from the wharf to be carried thns' i-'-7"
l.--,s " uIlncr.
Captain Tilghman, of the Balloon, sent out
to procure piece of beef, waited i'll The stream
for the messenger, and did his best to supply
the gross ncglects of Major Jones and Gener-
nj Wool, then stecrcd for an anchorage off
CarrolPs Island, where the gentlemen spent
the night without beds or covering, with cork
litc-prcscrvcrs for pillows the fire having
gone ont early in the night they suffered Sc
vcrcly from cold. In the morning Captain
Thrall, with small basket of commissary
stores for himself, boarded the Balloon, which
stccrad for the Chesapeake and Delaware canal
and there the prisoners were transferred to Il
canal boat, and landed at Fort Delaware.
While passing through the canal a collision
occurred, which so frightened the guard and
Captain Thrall, that in the hurry to save
themselves from imaginary danger they quite
abandoned the prisoners, who called upon the
guard to return and watch their prisoners,
but were told by the soldiers the prisoners
could take care of themselves. The prisoners
made no effort to escape, and when their fright
went the guard returned, and about 81 o'clock
on Friday morning, thc.3lst of October, they
were landed mt Fort Delaware and marched
under guard. They informed the officer that
they were loyal men, and wished not to bc
confined with Rebel prisoners, but no regard
was paid to their request and while in the
fort they were confined in room with the
most bitter Rebel prisoners, who were at lib
crty to SO in and out; were compelled to go
, to the common mess, while the Rebels were
allowed to provide for themselves separately :;
were the subject Of the continued impcrti-
nence and insolent curiosity of the Rebel
prisoners, and in all respects treated with the
utmost contumcly, and spent the night sitting
on bench, without fire, v'rappings or bed.
We think it due to our fellow citizens, not
merely of Maryland, but Of the United States,
to make this narrative of an event which il
Illustrates the long-suticriug and patience of
the loyal men of Maryland, and the contempt
for law of men wearing the uniform of United
States officers.