Thanks and that is where one of my great uncles was imprisoned.
http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=1491&highlight=fort+delaware “But for five days past we have not had a morsel of meat of any kind; the cooks alleging that the supply ran short and “spoiled.” (For a fortnight before it ceased to be issued, the rations were so full of worms, and stank so that one had to hold his nose while eating it!) But now we receive none at all! Talk about Andersonville! We would gladly exchange rations with the Yankees there! --Randolph Shotwell “The Awful Conditions at Fort Delaware, The Blue and the Gray, 1950, page 698)
American Bastille. Illegal arrests of Southerns and barbaric treatment.
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Thanks and that is where one of my great uncles was imprisoned.
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“But for five days past we have not had a morsel of meat of any kind; the cooks alleging that the supply ran short and “spoiled.” (For a fortnight before it ceased to be issued, the rations were so full of worms, and stank so that one had to hold his nose while eating it!) But now we receive none at all! Talk about Andersonville! We would gladly exchange rations with the Yankees there!
--Randolph Shotwell “The Awful Conditions at Fort Delaware, The Blue and the Gray, 1950, page 698)