Civil War Ghosts at Fort Delaware

Civil War Ghosts at Fort Delaware
Author: Ed Okonowicz
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2012-02-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0811745600

Ghosts at the Civil War island prison at Fort Delaware State Park.

Slavery and Freedom in Delaware, 1639-1865

Slavery and Freedom in Delaware, 1639-1865
Author: William Henry Williams
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780842028479

A text for courses in colonial and antebellum history. It analyzes the 'peculiar institution' in the First State.

A House Divided

A House Divided
Author: Patience Essah
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813916811

Delaware stood outside the primary streams of New World emancipation. Despite slavery's virtual demise in that state during the antebellum years and Delaware's staunch Unionism during the Civil War itself, the state failed to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which prohibits slavery, until 1901. Patience Essah takes the reader of A House Divided through the introduction, evolution, demise, and final abolition of slavery in Delaware. In unraveling the enigma of how and why tiny Delaware abstained from the abolition mandated in northern states after the American Revolution, resisted the movement toward abolition in border states during the Civil War, and stubbornly opposed ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, she offers fresh insight into the history of slavery, race, and racialism in America. The citizens of Delaware voluntarily freed over 90 percent of their slaves, yet they declined Lincoln's 1862 offer of compensation for emancipation, and the legislature persistently foiled all attempts to mandate emancipation. Those arguing against emancipation expressed fears that it inadvertently would alter the delicate balance of political power in the state. What Essah has found at the base of the Delaware paradox is a political discourse stalemated by instrumental appeals to racialism. In showing the persistence of slavery in Delaware, she raises questions about postslavery race relations. Her analysis is vital to an understanding of the African-American experience.

Essays on Delaware During the Civil War

Essays on Delaware During the Civil War
Author: Thomas J. Ryan
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-01-12
Genre: Delaware
ISBN: 9781481959032

This collection of articles addresses the lives and experiences of Delawareans during the mid-nineteenth century in general and the Civil War in particular. It examines the subject matter from three perspectives, political, military and social, that combined provide an understanding of the issues and circumstances that influenced the people of Delaware and their leaders during this traumatic period. The objective of this publication is to provide an understanding of Delaware's role during those stressful years in our country's history. The citizens of Delaware were not found wanting when Northern and, to a certain extent, Southern leadership called upon them for political support and military service. From a societal point of view, specifically regarding racial equality, however, it is important to recognize the slow progress that Delawareans made over the next century following the Civil War.

Unlikely Allies

Unlikely Allies
Author: Dale Fetzer
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2005-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780811732703

Moving narrative of the harrowing ordeal of Civil War prisoners. Based on newly discovered primary sources.

Confederate Prisoners at Fort Delaware

Confederate Prisoners at Fort Delaware
Author: Joel D. Citron
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2018-08-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476669228

During the Civil War, each side accused the other of mistreating prisoners of war. Today, most historians believe that there was systemic and deliberate abuse of POWs by both sides yet many base their conclusions on anecdotal evidence, much of it from postwar writings. Drawing on both contemporaneous prisoner diaries and Union Army documents (some newly discovered), the author presents a fresh and detailed study of supposed mistreatment of prisoners at Fort Delaware--one of the largest Union prison camps--and draws surprising conclusions, some of which have implications for the entire Union prison system.

Five Lectures on the American Civil War, 1861–1865

Five Lectures on the American Civil War, 1861–1865
Author: Raimondo Luraghi
Publisher: John Cabot University Press
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2012-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1611494273

The product of over thirty years of research on the American Civil War by Italy’s most renowned authority on the subject, this study synthetically analyzes the great drama that from 1861 to 1865 devastated the United States and gave life to the modern American nation. The book also highlights how the Civil War was the first conflict of the industrial age and an often neglected premonition of the two great world wars that shook the world in the twentieth century. The short essays presented here are the texts of five lectures delivered several years ago at the Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici in Naples and published in Italy in 1997.

Delaware, the First State

Delaware, the First State
Author: Carol E. Hoffecker
Publisher: B B& A Publishers
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2005-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780970580405

Examines the history of Delaware, from its first inhabitants and the arrival of European settlers to the effect of modern times on its business and government.

Three Hundred and Sixty-Six Days at Fort Delaware

Three Hundred and Sixty-Six Days at Fort Delaware
Author: Gary C. Cole
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2017-10-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1490784497

James Byrd Foote enlisted as a private in Company A of the First Regiment, Georgia Regulars, just thirteen days after the surrender of Fort Sumter; transferred to Company C of the Seventh Georgia Infantry Regiment some four months later; and participated in engagements against the Yankees at Yorktown, Seven Pines, Oak Grove, Mechanicsville, Gainess Mill, Garnetts and Goldings Farms, Savages Station, Malvern Hill, Kellys Ford, Rappahannock Station, Thoroughfare Gap, Second Manassas, Ox Hill, Boonsborough, Sharpsburg, Suffolk, Gettysburg, Funkstown, Charleston, Chattanooga, Campbells Station, and Knoxville, where he was captured on November 28, 1863. After spending more than three months as a prisoner of war in several jails and military prison camps, he was forwarded from the Union Military Prison at Louisville, Kentucky, to Fort Delaware and was imprisoned there for 366 days before being delivered for exchange to the Confederate authorities at Boulwares and Coxs Wharves in Virginia during the three-day period of March 1012, 1865. He returned home to Dallas, Georgia, as a paroled prisoner of war to find that the land throughout Paulding County had been laid to waste by the Union and Confederate armies and that his family had been impoverished by the war. He endured the hardships of Reconstruction in Northern Georgia but was determined to prosper, and he did, becoming a successful merchant farmer and a leading citizen of Dallas who was favorably known throughout Paulding and surrounding counties.

History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York

History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York
Author: Jay Gould
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1438485417

When Jay Gould died in 1892 he left behind an estate worth the equivalent of seventy-eight billion in today's dollars. He also left behind a reputation as one of Wall Street's most shrewd, astute, and (some said) manipulative operators. Long before his adventures in finance, the future "robber baron" was a young man on the make in his native Catskills, working as a surveyor and mapmaker in his natal place of Delaware County, where he had grown up side by side with the future writer and naturalist John Burroughs. Originally published in 1856, when Gould was just twenty, Gould's History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York is based on primary sources and original testimony from second and third generation settlers, many of them Gould's own friends and cousins. The book continues to be an important source on the first settlement of the region and is highly regarded by scholars. This edition features a new introduction by Edward Renehan, the biographer of both Gould and John Burroughs.