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By secret orders of Secretary Stanton, he was arrested at midnight, hurried to New York, and kept forty-nine days in solitary confinement in Fort Lafayette, without trial, charges, or answer to his appeals for a hearing! Congress finally vindicated him and set him free, after one hundred and eighty-nine days' imprisonment.
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BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM.
The interior of the Fort was burned out in the winter of 1869. Its armament has never
