Jacob Willhelm

Gender:Male
Era:1800s
State:Pennsylvania
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Biography

Marshall describes Willhelm as a Clearfield County associate judge and former Pennsylvania militia officer arrested at midnight on December 24, 1864. He was confined at Harrisburg and Fort Mifflin. The narrative links prosecution to his chairing Democratic political meetings, reports a military sentence of two years and a $500 fine, and says severe illness led to his return home on parole and a later pardon by President Andrew Johnson. Source: John A. Marshall, American Bastile (1869), printed pages 472-477, https://archive.org/details/americanbastile00marsgoog/page/n487/mode/1up.

Case

Fort Mifflin
Charges: Wartime military prosecution; exact formal charge not stated in the cited summary.
Arrested: Dec 24, 1864
Sentence: Military commission sentence reported as two years of confinement and a $500 fine; later paroled because of illness and pardoned. Exact pardon date not supplied.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Pennsylvania

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