Charles P. Stone to Lafayette, February 8, 1862

SIR:

This will.be handed to you by the officer sent in-charge of

You will please confine General Stone in Fort Lafayette, allowing him the comforts due his rank, and allowing him no communication with – any one by letter or otherwise, except under the usual supervision.

GEO. B. McCLELLAN, Major-General. COMMANDING OFFICER FORT LAFAYETTE. ;

Washington, D. C., February 9, 1862. GENERAL: This morning about 1 o’elock I was arrested by Brigadier-General Sykes, commanding city guard, and made a elose prisoner by order, as I was informed, of the Major-General Commanding-in-Chief. Conscious of being and having been at all times a faithful soldier of the United States, I most respectfully request that I may be furnished, at as early à moment as praetieable, with a copy of whatever charges may have been preferred against me and the opportunity of promptly meeting them. 1

Very respectfully, I am, general, your most obedient servant,