Charles Macgill, of Hagerstown, MD, was political prisoner at Fort Warren, in Boston Harbor. He was Major General in the Maryland, Militia, and co-editor of a Hagerstown newspaper. Arrested at his home on Sept. 30, 1861, by order of the Secretary of State. Believing his arrest was a violation of his Constitutional rights, he pushed two Union soldiers down the front steps of his home, and his daughters attacked them with a buggy whip. 

"Col. Dimmick" was Col. Justin Dimmick, (1800-1871), an 1819 West Point graduate; He was commandant of the Fort Warren prison from 1861 to 1864, and was regarded as kind and considerate by the Confederate prisoners there. 

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