After dinner a guard came into the room and escorted me down before Captain Parker, who told me to take a seat, while he proceeded to look over a paper he held in his hand.
“Where are you from?” he asked.
“I have resided in this city for the past seven or eight years,” I answered.
“Where were you born?”
James Williamson
From picture taken in 1861
“I was born in Baltimore and lived there until I came to Washington.”
“What is your occupation?”
“Printer; but since November I have been engaged in a bookstore on Seventh Street.”
“You have been South during the war?”