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. . Important political and military prisoners were often housed in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington including accused spies Rose Greenhow and Belle Boyd as well as partisan ranger John S Mosby One inmate Henry Wirz the commandant of the Andersonville Prison in Georgia was hanged in the yard of the prison shortly after the war for his cruelty and neglect toward the Union prisoners of war. .

. Washington D.C. Business Directory President John Witherspoon of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) wrote widely circulated sermons linking the American Revolution to the teachings of the Bible Throughout the colonies dissenting Protestant ministers (Congregational Baptist and Presbyterian) preached Revolutionary themes in their sermons while most Church of England clergymen preached loyalty to the king the titular head of the English state church. Religious motivation for fighting tyranny transcended socioeconomic lines to encompass rich and poor men and women frontiersmen and townsmen farmers and merchants the Declaration of Independence also referred to the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" as justification for the Americans' separation from the British monarchy Most eighteenth-century Americans believed that the entire universe ("nature") was God's creation and he was "Nature's God" Everything was part of the "universal order of things" which began with God and was directed by his providence. Accordingly the signers of the Declaration professed their "firm reliance on the Protection of divine Providence" and they appealed to "the Supreme Judge for the rectitude of our intentions". George Washington was firmly convinced that he was an instrument of providence to the benefit of the American people and of all humanity. Robert Morris had been a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly and president of Pennsylvania's Committee of Safety (American Revolution) He was also a member of the Committee of Secret Correspondence. On March 1 1847 Alexander W Doniphan occupied Chihuahua City British consul John Potts did not want to let Doniphan search Governor Trias's mansion and unsuccessfully asserted it was under British protection American merchants in Chihuahua wanted the American force to stay in order to protect their business Major William Gilpin advocated a march on Mexico City and convinced a majority of officers but Doniphan subverted this plan Then in late April Taylor ordered the First Missouri Mounted Volunteers to leave Chihuahua and join him at Saltillo the American merchants either followed or returned to Santa Fe Along the way the townspeople of Parras enlisted Doniphan's aid against an Indian raiding party that had taken children horses mules and money, John Adams is a stern middle-aged man with gray hair is wearing a dark red suit He is standing behind a table holding a rolled up document in one hand and pointing with the other hand to a large document on the table!