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5 unusual facts about Fort Delaware


Burton Harrison

At the end of the American Civil War he was captured by the Union Army with Jefferson Davis, and Varina Davis, and imprisoned at Fort Delaware, where he resumed his long-interrupted law studies.

Fort Delaware

The British series Most Haunted also did an investigation of the fort in their 11th series of the show.

The Sci-Fi Channel investigation series Ghost Hunters conducted two cases there including a live televised investigation on Halloween in 2008.

Bruce Mowday and Dale Fetzer, Unlikely Allies: Fort Delaware's Prison Community in the Civil War Stackpole Books, 2000.

John L. Gihon

In 1863, he obtained permission to photograph at nearby Fort Delaware, a third-system fortification and wartime prison camp, which held more than 32,000 captured confederates.


Delaware City, Delaware

The Delaware City Historic District, Chelsea, Eastern Lock of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Fairview, and Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Leon Jastremski

He fought for the Union side at the Battle of Malvern Hill on July 1, 1862 and was captured and imprisoned at Fort Delaware.


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