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Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, was confined in this casemate from May 22 to October 2, 1865. As his health suffered there, he was removed to Carroll Hall in the fortress, where he remained from October 1865 until May 1867, when he was released on bail. He was never brought to trial.
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