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Page i Unlikely Allies Fort Delaware's Prison Community in the Civil War Dale Fetzer and Bruce Mowday Foreword by Leland C. Jennings

Page ii Copyright 2000 by Stackpole Books Published by STACKPOLE BOOKS 5067 Ritter Road Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. All inquiries should be addressed to Stackpole Books, 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 FIRST EDITION Fetzer, Dale, and Mowday, Bruce. Unlikely allies : Fort Delaware's prison community in the Civil War / Dale Fetzer and Bruce Mowday. 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-8117-1823-9 1. Fort Delaware (Del.) 2. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865 Prisoners and prisons. 3. Prisoners of warDelawareFort DelawareHistory 19th century. I. Mowday, Bruce. II. Title. E616.D3F48 1999 99-29577 973.7'72dc21 CIP

Page iii Over the Carnage Rose Prophetic a Voice Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice, Be not dishearten'd, affection shall solve the problems of freedom yet, Those who love each other shall become invincible, They shall yet make Columbia victorious. Sons of the Mother of All, you shall yet be victorious, You shall yet laugh to scorn the attacks of all the remainder of the earth. No danger shall balk Columbia's lovers, If need be a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one. One from Massachusetts shall be a Missourian's comrade, From Maine and from hot Carolina, and another an Oregonese, shall be friends triune, More precious to each other than all the riches of the earth. To Michigan, Florida perfumes shall tenderly come, Not the perfumes of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death. It shall be customary in the houses and streets to see manly affection, The most dauntless and rude shall touch face to face lightly, The dependence of Liberty shall be lovers, The continuance of Equality shall be comrades. These shall tie you and band you stronger than hoops of iron, I, ecstatic, O partners! O lands! With the love of lovers tie you. (Were you looking to be held together by lawyers? Or by an agreement on a paper? Or by arms? Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.) Walt Whitman

Page v Contents Foreword vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Chapter 1 Prelude 1 Chapter 2 1861 31 Chapter 3 1862 49 Chapter 4 1863 84 Chapter 5 1864 120 Chapter 6 1865 129 Epilogue 147 Appendices 151 Notes 159 Bibliography 167 Index 171

Page vii Foreword by Leland C. Jennings The viewing of an artist's masterpiece is always a deeply moving experience. The painting, the sculpture, the poem, or whatever form the work may assume conveys the deepest instincts of the artist in such a powerful way that the beholder cannot help being moved. It is rare that an architectural work designed primarily for destructive purposes would stir such a profoundly emotional response. Yet John Sanders's masterpiece on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River is a magnificent structure. Sanders did not live to see the completion of his work, but from the grillage timbers of its foundations to the fine, finished brickwork of its casemates, Fort Delaware bears the stamp of a man whose great attention to detail and ability to overcome incredible logistical difficulties raised it out of the compressible mud of Pea Patch Island. Six years ago, I began to research Fort Delaware. The primary focus was to locate the engineering documents required for preservation and stabilization of the old fort. Sanders's notes, his letters to the engineering department, and his daily orders shaped a story not so much of the construction of a gun battery but, more to the point, the construction of a town. The story of the brick-and-granite structure is inextricably woven with the story of those who built and maintained it. The research project grew to encompass the lives of the workers, the soldiers, and those who were imprisoned during the War between the States.

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