Named Entity Results, Fort Delaware (Delaware, United States)

Escaped from Fort Delaware. Joseph Cox, a member of Capt. Atkins's company, Wheat's battalion, who was taken prisoner in a skirmish at Slabtown, in the Valley, on the 23d of last April, and who was sent to Fort Delaware, recently escaped from that prison and arrived safely in Richmond on Tuesday evening. In effecting his escape, he was at times subjected to the severest privations, and such as were well calculated to deter a less bold and determined spirit. After he had succeeded in makiFort Delaware, recently escaped from that prison and arrived safely in Richmond on Tuesday evening. In effecting his escape, he was at times subjected to the severest privations, and such as were well calculated to deter a less bold and determined spirit. After he had succeeded in making his exit from the prison, he immediately took to the water, and for several hours struggled with the current. He finally succeeded in reaching a swamp, in which he remained for thirty-six hours without a mouthful of food.--Emerging from this swamp he made his way to Baltimore, where he took a boat for the Peninsula, and landed at Yorktown. Here his difficulties seemed to accumulate, as the lines of McClellan's army had to be passed before he could feel the slightest degree of safety: Unawe