Civil War Ghosts at Fort Delaware
Author: Ed Okonowicz
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0811745600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGhosts at the Civil War island prison at Fort Delaware State Park.
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Author: Ed Okonowicz
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0811745600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGhosts at the Civil War island prison at Fort Delaware State Park.
Author: Laura M. Lee
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2010-08-02
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1439626235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocated on Pea Patch Island, Fort Delaware was erected to defend local ports from enemy attack but never received or fired a shot in anger. The first earthen-work version, constructed during the War of 1812, was followed by a second 1820s plan incorporating a masonry star design with a network of drainage ditches. Engineering issues and a low-lying site doomed the structure; in 1831, it was irreparably damaged by fire. A new plan created a more substantial fortification still standing to this day. Fort Delaware evolved into a well-established community that transformed from protector to notorious Civil War prison camp. Most widely known as a prison, it subsequently served in lesser roles through three more conflicts. Images of America: Fort Delaware unifies an amazing pictorial record of Fort Delawares historical timeline. The story is not only of active duty but its rescue from abandonment and subsequent successful preservation work.
Author: Brian Temple
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780786481989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocated on Pea Patch Island at the entrance to the Delaware River, Fort Delaware was built to protect Wilmington and Philadelphia in case of an attack by sea. When the Civil War broke out, Fort Delaware's purpose changed dramatically--it became a prisoner of war camp. By the fall of 1863, about 12,000 soldiers, officers, and political prisoners were being held in an area designed to hold only 4,000--and known as the Andersonville of the North, a place where terrible sickness and deprivation were a way of life despite the commanding general's efforts to keep the prison clean and the prisoners fed. Many books have been written about the Confederacy's Andersonville and its terrible conditions, but comparatively little has been written about its counterparts in the North. The conditions at Fort Delaware are fully explored, contemplating what life was like for prisoners and guards alike.
Author: Joel D. Citron
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-08-21
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1476628963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Civil War, each side accused the other of mistreating prisoners of war. Today, most historians believe that there was systemic and deliberate abuse of POWs by both sides yet many base their conclusions on anecdotal evidence, much of it from postwar writings. Drawing on both contemporaneous prisoner diaries and Union Army documents (some newly discovered), the author presents a fresh and detailed study of supposed mistreatment of prisoners at Fort Delaware--one of the largest Union prison camps--and draws surprising conclusions, some of which have implications for the entire Union prison system.
Author: Dale Fetzer
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2005-06
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780811732703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoving narrative of the harrowing ordeal of Civil War prisoners. Based on newly discovered primary sources.
Author: Gary C. Cole
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2017-10-26
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1490784497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Byrd Foote enlisted as a private in Company A of the First Regiment, Georgia Regulars, just thirteen days after the surrender of Fort Sumter; transferred to Company C of the Seventh Georgia Infantry Regiment some four months later; and participated in engagements against the Yankees at Yorktown, Seven Pines, Oak Grove, Mechanicsville, Gainess Mill, Garnetts and Goldings Farms, Savages Station, Malvern Hill, Kellys Ford, Rappahannock Station, Thoroughfare Gap, Second Manassas, Ox Hill, Boonsborough, Sharpsburg, Suffolk, Gettysburg, Funkstown, Charleston, Chattanooga, Campbells Station, and Knoxville, where he was captured on November 28, 1863. After spending more than three months as a prisoner of war in several jails and military prison camps, he was forwarded from the Union Military Prison at Louisville, Kentucky, to Fort Delaware and was imprisoned there for 366 days before being delivered for exchange to the Confederate authorities at Boulwares and Coxs Wharves in Virginia during the three-day period of March 1012, 1865. He returned home to Dallas, Georgia, as a paroled prisoner of war to find that the land throughout Paulding County had been laid to waste by the Union and Confederate armies and that his family had been impoverished by the war. He endured the hardships of Reconstruction in Northern Georgia but was determined to prosper, and he did, becoming a successful merchant farmer and a leading citizen of Dallas who was favorably known throughout Paulding and surrounding counties.
Author: Fort Delaware Society (Wilmington, Delaware)
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brendan Mackie
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738588070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFort DuPont is named in honor of Rear Adm. Samuel Francis Du Pont and located on the Reeden Point tract, land initially granted to Henry Ward in 1675. Fort DuPont originated during the Civil War as a heavily armed earthwork fortification. In 1864, Sgt. Bishop Crumrine wrote, "these guns command the channel and could blow to atoms any vessel rash enough to attempt to pass." In the decades to follow, the battery at Delaware City was gradually modernized into a formidable military post that remained active through World War II. Declared surplus, the site reopened in 1948 as the Governor Bacon Health Center. By 1996, over 300 acres were reestablished as Fort DuPont State Park.
Author: Gary Wray
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738541952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFort Miles is in Cape Henlopen State Park near historic Lewes and the site of Delaware's first Dutch settlement. Named for Gen. Nelson Appleton Miles, this powerful seacoast fortification was built during World War II to defend the vital industries of the Delaware Valley. Included in this volume are rare vintage photographs of the fort's heavy artillery, hundreds of 3,000-pound sea mines, and radar systems that searched the nearby ocean for the enemy surface fleet. Its powerful 12- and 16-inch guns could reach out between 15 and 25 miles to attack an adversary. Today, the fort is being reborn as one of the best World War II museums in the country; it is housed in a real World War II bunker and includes the barracks complex and fire control towers.
Author: United States Civil Service Commission
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Published: 1899
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