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imprisoned in a casemate at Fort McHenry for
a few days. The cause of the arrest was never
disclosed to him, but Judge Bartol had in con-
versation characterized the arrest of Judge Rich-
ard B. Carmichael of Easton as illegal, and it
was thought this may have led to Judge Bartol's
arrest. Judge Carmichael was judge of the cir-
cuit which included Talbot County, and in a
charge to a grand jury had made some remarks
which the federal authorities considered antag-
onistic, and a detachment of troops under orders of
Major General Dix, in control of Baltimore City,
arrested Judge Carmichael on May 27, 1862, as
he was sitting in court at Easton, wounding him,
and causing a wave of public anger.

On July 2, 1863, the court held a session and
adjourned until the following October. It was a
date on which devoted attention to the solution
of legal puzzles could hardly have been possible.

This period is one well within the memories
of fathers of men now living, and, of course,
many reminiscences of the court and the lawyers
have been preserved—too many, indeed, to be
recorded except in generalizations. The proceed-
ings were dignified and would today seem very
ceremonious, but the leaders who drew up to the
counsel table were men of strength as well as of
fineness of intellect and personality. Perhaps a
more fastidious generation will be disposed to
deny fineness to men who had the manly vices
of the time. Many chewed tobacco, and drank
strong liquor, even within the precincts of the
court. Then and until a much later time, some
of the greater men had whiskey held in reserve