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The Daily Dispatch: June 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
ws from the United States. We give a summary: Seizure of a Federal steamer by Confederate prisoners — their escape. The Washington Chronicle gives the following account of the escape of ninety Confederate officers from the horrors of Fort Delaware: On Wednesday last, the steamer Maple Leaf, Capt. Wm. H. Deal, left Old Point for Fort Delaware, having on board ninety Confederates, all commissioned officers, who, it is understood, were not to be exchanged for the present. EverythinFort Delaware, having on board ninety Confederates, all commissioned officers, who, it is understood, were not to be exchanged for the present. Everything went on quietly until the steamer was just beyond Cape Henry Light, when the prisoners gradually approached the guard, only twelve in number, and suddenly disarmed them, placing them and the officers and crew under close arrest, and would not permit them to see in what direction the vessel was steaming. After proceeding about 45 miles beyond Cape Henry the steamer was run in near the Virginia shore, where all but twenty-six landed in the yawl boats of the Leaf. They piloted the steamer