Reeducation Camps(Gulags)?

5fish

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Here is wiki take....

Before 1861, the fort's 72 heavy cannon commanded the primary approaches to the harbor, but during the Civil War, the casemates were used to house Confederate prisoners of war and politicians opposed to the administration's policies, detained under Abraham Lincoln's selective suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. Fort Lafayette came to be known as the "American Bastille" to some.[4]

Robert Cobb Kennedy, formerly a captain in the 1st Louisiana Regular Infantry (CSA), was one of the Confederate conspirators in the plot to burn New York on Thanksgiving Day, 25 November 1864, and was the only one caught. He was imprisoned, court-martialed, and hanged at the fort on 25 March 1865. The plot to burn New York was in retaliation for Sherman burning Atlanta.[5][6][7] Several hotels and P. T. Barnum's museum were set on fire.[8]

Francis Key Howard, grandson of Francis Scott Key, was a newspaper editor of the Baltimore Exchange, a newspaper sympathetic to the southern cause. He was arrested on 13 September 1861 by U.S. Major General Nathaniel Prentice Banks on the direct orders of General George B. McClellan, enforcing the policy of President Abraham Lincoln. The basis of his arrest was for writing a critical editorial in his newspaper on Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, and the fact that the Lincoln administration had declared martial law in Baltimore and imprisoned numerous persons without due process, including George William Brown, mayor of Baltimore, Congressman Henry May, the police commissioners of Baltimore, and the entire city council.[9] Howard was then transferred to Fort Lafayette and from there to Fort Warren in Boston harbor.[10][11]


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There was certainly one proponent for gulags - Parson Brownlow of Tennessee. He advocated sterilizing all former Confederates, removing their children from their homes and re-educating them so they wouldn't follow the teachings of their parents. Being Brownlow...he was dead serious about this!
 

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There was certainly one proponent for gulags - Parson Brownlow of Tennessee. He advocated sterilizing all former Confederates, removing their children from their homes and re-educating them so they wouldn't follow the teachings of their parents. Being Brownlow...he was dead serious about this!
how would they sterilize people in 1865 without killing half of them?
 
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