Biography
Daniel Cory of Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested under a Secretary of State order dated September 14, 1861 and confined at Fort Lafayette. Officials accused him of disloyalty, denouncing President Lincoln and making threats against Lincoln and Union volunteers. A conditional release order was issued October 15; the federal record expressly reports his actual release October 21, 1861, after an allegiance oath with restrictions on correspondence, travel and hostile acts. The arrest-order date is not treated as a confirmed physical arrest date. Source: The War of the Rebellion: Official Records, series II, volume II, section 1, printed pages 801–802 (State Department record book, Arrests for Disloyalty), https://archive.org/details/cu31924079570242/page/n816/mode/2up.
The Fort Lafayette return records admission on September 16, 1861; this is a prison admission, not a separately verified physical arrest day. It records actual discharge on October 21, 1861. Source: Official Records, Series II, Volume II, printed page 229, https://archive.org/details/cu31924079570242/page/n244/mode/1up. The institution-specific admission recorded here does not establish the start of all custody in this case; a complete imprisonment total is therefore left unspecified.
