AncestorNews readers Ann Blackwell and Joan Thomas Holloway sent along a note in reference to the last newsletter.
Both Ann and Joan had ancestors who were in Civil War prisons. Ann’s ancestor, Col. Pleasent Fowler, of Arkansas, was in a New Jersey prison; Joan’s was kept at Fort Delaware.
Approximately 2700 Confederate soldiers died while being held captive at Fort Delaware. The commandant of Fort Delaware, Brig.Gen. Albin F. Schoepf, a Hungarian refugee, was nicknamed “General Terror”.
I believe a majority of Delaware prisoners were from Gettysburg.
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