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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Keysville Guards. (search)
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Escaped from Fort Delaware.
From the Richmond Dispatch, August 19, 1900.
A Mississippi Confederate tells how he and a comrade Escaped—Afloat on a ladder, then a tramp.
A story told by Sergeant Warren D. Reid, of Mississippi, for Mrs. J McIntosh, Vice-Regent, Mississippi room, Confederate Museum.
The following thrilling story of the escape from Fort Delaware, by Sergeant Reid, of Holliday, Miss., and his cousin, Joseph G. Marable, now deceased, was written at the request of lie or sit down.
We were then put aboard of a canal boat and carried by way of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal to Fort Delaware, where we were landed about the 6th of July.
Fort Delaware was situated on an island of about ninety acres in the Fort Delaware was situated on an island of about ninety acres in the upper end of Delaware Bay.
We were placed in barrack;, in the northwest corner of the island, with a plank wall around to secure us. We were barely fed enough to keep us alive.
On the outside of our enclosure stood the fort, officers' houses, ho