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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

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Particulars for Fort Warren:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Structure Type Fortification
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Military
Level of Significance National



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 70000540
Resource Type:
Owner: Local
Architect: Thayer,Lt. Col. Sylvanus; Corps of Engineers
Architectural Style: No style listed
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Military, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849
Significant Year: 1834, 1865
Historic Function: Defense
Historic Sub-Function: Fortification
Current Function: Recreation and Culture, Landscape
Current Sub-Function: Museum Park

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