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Delights of fort Delaware.

From the accounts given by returned prisoners, this fortress must be the hell of Northern prisons. Not a prisoner we converse with that does not swear he will never take another prisoner; and with reference to the Germans who are the guard there, one of our soldiers said if he ever met one of them again he would ‘"bayonet him and stay by him till he died, if it was a week."’ The German soldiers at the fort do not understand English, and if addressed by a prisoner, immediately bring their bayonets to a charge and run him through with it if he does not retreat. Fort Delaware has done a great deal towards changing disciplined soldiers into disciplined tigers.

The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. October 8, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Delights of fort Delaware.