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: 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: 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: Laura M. Lee
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738585901
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 Delaware's historical timeline. The story is not only of active duty but its rescue from abandonment and subsequent successful preservation work.
Author: Joel D. Citron
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-08-29
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1476669228
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: United States Civil Service Commission
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Published: 1899
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 1250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Adam Gamble
Publisher: Good Night Books
Published: 2011-11-04
Total Pages: 22
ISBN-13: 1602191468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany of North America's most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these board books designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continent's natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area's attractions and rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place. Covering many of the state’s most interesting places and features, including the Delaware River, Delaware Bay, the Atlantic Ocean, Rehoboth Beach, Brandywine Zoo, and the numerous lighthouses that dot the shore, this book is a celebration of all things that make Delaware a special place.
Author: Jeffery M. Dorwart
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1998-05
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780812216448
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"It is a rare achievement for a historian to match his account of the history of a major site in terms of its original significance with an equally good study of the site as the subject of historic preservation."--Russell F. Weigley