Biography
Marshall identifies Hubbell as a disabled newsboy from Bridgeport, Connecticut, who sold newspapers on the Naugatuck Railroad. He reports confinement at Fort Lafayette from September 20 to September 26, 1861 without a stated charge. The account suggests his sale of the New York Daily News as the suspected reason, while acknowledging that the actual reason was not given. Source: John A. Marshall, American Bastile (1869), printed pages 536-537, https://archive.org/details/americanbastile00marsgoog/page/n553/mode/1up.
The Fort Lafayette return records admission on September 20, 1861; this is a prison admission, not a separately verified physical arrest day. It records actual discharge on September 26, 1861. Source: Official Records, Series II, Volume II, printed page 229, https://archive.org/details/cu31924079570242/page/n244/mode/1up.
His brother Nathan’s September 21, 1861 letter supplies independent arrest evidence: George was arrested by United States Marshal David H. Carr at 10 a.m. September 20 at the Bridgeport railway station, before his Fort Lafayette confinement. Nathan describes a 25 year old Naugatuck Railroad newspaper agent with a spinal disability since youth who supported his mother. He identifies sale of the New York Daily News and alleged disrespectful language as the ostensible grounds and disputes that George was disloyal. Source: Official Records, Series II, Volume II, printed pages 73, https://archive.org/details/cu31924079570242/page/n88/mode/1up.
