This article in the Times-Picayune as part of the "City Intelligence" section describes the capture of maroons: "Mr. Charles Cammeyer, who is well known in this city for his perseverance in ferretting out and discovering the haunts of runaway negroes yesterday succeeded in finding out a camp in the swamp at the rear of the city, where there were living, in apparent security, eight runaway negroes. The negroes had been absent from their masters for a long time, and, as they say, have been employed for some time past in cutting wood for a white man. The camp appeared to be quite a quiet homeplace for them. Cammeyer succeeded in arresting five of them and lodging them in the Second Municipality watch-house. The other three, at the time of his visit to the camp, were absent in this city, for the purpose of procuring provisions."