Fort Warren
- Vicinity: Georges Island
Civil War-era prison - AsNotedIn
Civil War-era prison - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| Sylvanus Thayer | Architect | |||||
| US Army Corps of Engineers | Architect | |||||
| 1834/00/00 | ||||||
| 1861/05/12 | "John Brown's Body" is publicly played, perhaps for the first time, at a flag-raising ceremony at Fort Warren. | John Brown's Body (song) | ||||
| 1861/11/08 | Admiral Charles Wilkes | Captain of the USS San Jacinto | Confederate diplomats James M Mason and John Slidell are taken off a British ship by the USS San Jacinto and confined to Fort Warren until 1 January 1862 | Trent Afrair | ||
| 1861/11/08 | James Murray Mason | Captive | Confederate diplomats James M Mason and John Slidell are taken off a British ship by the USS San Jacinto and confined to Fort Warren until 1 January 1862 | Trent Afrair | ||
| 1862/00/00 | Charles R Codman, 45th Mass Volunteer | Captain | Charles Codman serves as Captain and Adjutant of the Boston Cadets in the early summer of 1862 | |||
| 1862/02/00 | Nathaniel Cheairs | Confinement | Nathaniel Cheairs is captured by the Union and is held as a prisoner of war at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor, Feb 1862 - Summer 1863 | |||
| 1862/03/00 | Adolphus Heiman | POW | About 13,000 Confederates are loaded into transports journey to Northern prisoner-of-war camps and are incarcerated in hastily converted and ill-prepared sites in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Col Heiman is sent to Fort Warren near Boston. | Battle of Fort Donelson | ||
| 1864/00/00 | Adam R Johnson | Military | General Johnson is captured and sent the Fort Warren | |||
| 1865/06/00 | Alexander H Stephens | Confederate Vice President | Alexander H Stephens is imprisoned at Fort Warren, May 1865 - October 1865 |
| Particulars for Fort Warren: | |
|---|---|
| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Criteria | Exemplar |
| Structure Type | Fortification |
| Sight Category | Historic District |
| Area of Significance | Military |
| Level of Significance | National |
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