Kane's Arrest
However, after days of excitement and suspense, the upheaval subsided, and soon General Benjamin Butler, with a strong Federal force, took possession of Baltimore’s Federal Hill where he erected extensive fortifications. For the period of the war Baltimore was closely guarded by Northern troops.
Marshall Kane remained in office as head of the police until June 27, 1861, when he was arrested in the dead of night at his house on St. Paul Street by a detachment of Federal soldiers and taken to Fort McHenry. From there he was sent to Fort Lafayette in New York. From there he wrote a letter to President Lincoln in September, 1861, describing the fever from malaria he contracted at Ft. McHenry, and the inhumane conditions at Fort Lafayette. "Whilst suffering great agony from the promptings of nature and effects of my debility I am frequently kept for a long time at the door of my cell waiting for permission to go to the water-closet owing to the utter indifference of some of my keepers to the ordinary demands of humanity." Later he was moved to Fort Warren in Boston. In all he was confined for 14 months. He was released in 1862 and went to Montreal.
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