Walter S. Hawkes

Gender:Male
Era:1800s
State:Illinois
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Biography

Marshall describes Hawkes as a surveyor and civil engineer arrested at his Tamaroa, Illinois home on August 22, 1862, with several neighboring men also detained. He was transported to Washington and confined in the Old Capitol Prison for six weeks. The account reports release without charges or trial and connects the arrests to a local Union League accusation whose contents were not disclosed. Source: John A. Marshall, American Bastile (1869), printed pages 538-539, https://archive.org/details/americanbastile00marsgoog/page/n555/mode/1up.

Case

Old Capitol Prison
Charges: Wartime political detention; the cited account does not establish a criminal conviction.
Arrested: Aug 22, 1862
Sentence: Wartime detention; exact custody endpoints are not established in the cited account.
Institution State: District of Columbia

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