Biography
William G. Harrison was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates arrested in the September 1861 federal sweep of the legislature and imprisoned without charge at Fort McHenry and Fort Warren.
Additional source for this Civil War detention: John A. Marshall, American Bastile (1869), printed pages 369-370, https://archive.org/details/americanbastile00marsgoog/page/n384/mode/2up. This is a partisan retrospective account; its judgments should be read as attributed claims. The Fort Warren political-prisoner return dated April 15, 1862 records this individual’s commission disposition as: “Refused parole.” The report date is not an exact release date. An offered parole, unaccepted order, or not-examined marker does not establish release or uninterrupted physical imprisonment through that day. Source: Official Records, Series II, Volume II, printed page 285, https://archive.org/details/cu31924079570242/page/n300/mode/1up.
