Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . cago which had for its object the liber-ation of the prisoners of war at Camp Douglas, theburning of the city and the inauguration of rebellionin the North. Gen. Sweet, who had charge of thecamp at the time, first had his suspicions of dangeraroused by a number of enigmatically worded letterswhich passed through the Camp postoffice. A de-tective afterward discovered that the rebel was in the city, under an assumedname, and he, with other rebel officers—Grenfell,Morgan, Cantrell, Buckner Morris, and CharlesWalsh—was ar
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . cago which had for its object the liber-ation of the prisoners of war at Camp Douglas, theburning of the city and the inauguration of rebellionin the North. Gen. Sweet, who had charge of thecamp at the time, first had his suspicions of dangeraroused by a number of enigmatically worded letterswhich passed through the Camp postoffice. A de-tective afterward discovered that the rebel was in the city, under an assumedname, and he, with other rebel officers—Grenfell,Morgan, Cantrell, Buckner Morris, and CharlesWalsh—was arrested, most of whom were convictedby a court-martial at Cincinnati and sentenced toimprisonment,—Grenfell to be hung. The sentenceof the latter was afterward commuted to imprison-ment for life, and all the others, after nine monthsimprisonment, were pardoned. In March, 1873, Gov. Yates was appointed a Gov-ernment Director of the Union Pacific Railroad, inwhich office he continued until his decease, at , Mo., on the 27th of Novemljer
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