John E. Robinson

Released
Gender:Male
Era:1800s
State:Pennsylvania
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Biography

Marshall identifies Robinson as a Philadelphian arrested at Sandusky, Ohio on September 20, 1864, apparently on suspicion of involvement in the Lake Erie raid. The account follows his confinement on USS Michigan, at Johnson's Island and Cleveland jails, and finally at Fort Lafayette. It records unconditional release on February 9, 1866 without trial or a specified charge, and notes that authorities later described him as a witness without identifying the case. Source: John A. Marshall, American Bastile (1869), printed pages 606-612, https://archive.org/details/americanbastile00marsgoog/page/n623/mode/1up.

Case

Fort Lafayette
Charges: Wartime political detention; the cited account does not establish a criminal conviction.
Arrested: Sep 20, 1864
Released: Feb 9, 1866
Sentence: Wartime detention; exact custody endpoints are not established in the cited account.
Institution State: New York

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