Record Data Place Unit Type Location or Site Containing Unit Brooklyn, NY Events Date Type 02/09/1862 Brigadier General Charles Pomeroy Stone, USA, arrested in his Washington hotel room and imprisoned Lawmaking/Litigating 12/20/1861 Former Iowa Senator George W. Jones arrested in New York and imprisoned for suspected disloyalty Lawmaking/Litigating 09/25/1866 Former Maryland congressman Henry May, imprisoned at the start of the Civil War, dies in Baltimore. Personal 03/28/1862 Friends of imprisoned Brigadier General Charles Stone seek aid from the Massachusetts Legislature Lawmaking/Litigating 03/25/1865 In New York Harbor, convicted Confederate spy and New York City arsonist Captain Robert Cobb Kennedy is executed Battles/Soldiers People Documents Date Title 12/19/1861 Secretary William H. Seward to General Andrew Porter, Arrest Order for George Wallace Jones, December 19, 1861 03/24/1865 Robert Cobb Kennedy, Confession of his efforts to fire New York City, given the day before his execution, March 24, 1865 Images Fort Lafayette, New York, circa 1905