Joseph Coleman

Gender:Male
Era:1800s
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Biography

Marshall's table identifies Joseph Coleman, aged 68, among the forty-four Columbia County, Pennsylvania prisoners in his account of the 1864 Fishing Creek arrests and confinement at Fort Mifflin. The table records detention of 1 months and 19 days; an individual arrest or release day is not established by this entry. Source: John A. Marshall, American Bastile (1869), printed pages 303-316, https://archive.org/details/americanbastile00marsgoog/page/n316/mode/2up. Marshall is a partisan retrospective source; its allegations are attributed to the author.

Case

Fort Mifflin
Charges: Military detention in the Fishing Creek arrests; Marshall disputes the alleged local conspiracy.
Sentence: Wartime detention described by Marshall; no criminal conviction reported in the cited passage.
Institution State: Pennsylvania

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