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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Escape of prisoners from Fort Delaware. (search)
Escape of prisoners from Fort Delaware. --Yesterday afternoon five Confederate prisoners: A. L. Brooks and C. J. Fuller, company G, 9th Georgia; J. Marian, com Miss., and Jno, Dorsey, co. A, Stuart's Horse Artillery, arrived here from Fort Delaware, having made their escape from Fort Delaware on the night of the 12th inst.Fort Delaware on the night of the 12th inst. The narrative of their escape is interesting. Having formed the plan to escape, they improvised life preservers by tying four canteens, well corked, around the bod canal. Here they parted company with five others who had escaped from Fort Delaware some days previous, as the canoe would not hold ten of them. In the canoe journey. These gentlemen state that a large number of our prisoners at Fort Delaware have taken the cath and enlisted in the Yankee service. The Yankees have ahem. They are termed "galvanized Yankees." Our prisoners are dying in Fort Delaware at the rate of twelve a day. Their rations are six crackers a day and spoil