Charles James Faulkner

Released
Date of birth:1806
Date of death:1884
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1800s
State:Virginia
Time Imprisoned:
4 Months
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Charles James Faulkner

Biography

Charles James Faulkner was a former U.S. congressman from Virginia and U.S. minister to France. On returning from his diplomatic post in 1861 he was arrested and held without charge at Fort Warren, then exchanged in December 1861 for the captured Union congressman Alfred Ely. He later served the Confederacy.

Additional source for this Civil War detention: John A. Marshall, American Bastile (1869), printed pages 379, https://archive.org/details/americanbastile00marsgoog/page/n394/mode/2up. This is a partisan retrospective account; its judgments should be read as attributed claims.

Case

Fort Warren
Charges: No formal charges — held without charge
Arrested: August 1861
Incarcerated: August 1861
Released: December 1861
Sentence: Held at Fort Warren, then exchanged in December 1861.
Convicted: No
Institution State: Massachusetts

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