To none of these applications was answer of any kind returned.

After he had been nearly two months in prison he asked that his wife might be allowed to visit him.

She was in the deepest anguish, and her society in his imprisonment could have subjected the government to no danger, because she would have been under the same restraint and espionage as her husband.

This natural and reasonable request, made only after his confinement promised to be indefinite, was peremptorily and curtly refused by the War Department.
On the fiftieth day the place of his imprisonment was changed from Fort Lafayette to Fort Hamilton near by, and the opportunity for open-air exercise within the fort was accorded him, though always under the eye of a sentinel.

Here he renewed his request for the charges against him, without eliciting answer.