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"Fort Delaware State Park: A Visitor's Perspective"

(A great video tour of Fort Delaware.  20 minutes in length.)

This video offers visitors a glimpse into the past. Follow them as they journey by ferry to Fort Delaware. Step back in time and imagine what life was like in 1864. If for some reason you are not able to visit Fort Delaware in person, this exciting and educational program will provide a special experience. If you are fortunate enough to have been there, this video will serve as a lasting reminder of your visit. Available in DVD only.

$15.00 + $5.00 shipping

"Imprisoned for Conscience Sake:

Confederate Pastor Isaac W. K. Handy"

ISBN #1-59442-138-2 (Sprinkle Publications, Harrisonburg, Virginia 2007)

A reprint of the prison diary of the Reverend Isaac W. K. Handy, D. D., a Presbyterian minister from Portsmouth, Virginia who was charged with "disloyalty" and imprisoned at Fort Delaware from July 21, 1863 until October 13, 1864 without trial. Originally published under the title "United States Bonds; or Duress by Federal Authority: A Journal of Current Events During an Imprisonment of Fifteen Months, at Fort Delaware" (Turnbull Brothers, Baltimore, 1874), Dr. Handy's diary presents a detailed day to day account of events and people, (Union, Confederate, and civilians) in the Civil War prison camp on Pea Patch Island.

$40.00 + $4.00 shipping

"A Fort Delaware Journal: The Diary of a Yankee Private, A. J. Hamilton, 1862-1865."
        Edited by W. Emerson Wilson

Published by the Fort Delaware Society, 1981.  97 pages, photos.
      

 $9.50 + $1.50 shipping

Fort Delaware Notes: The First 50 Years

Digitally scanned images of the issues of the Fort Delaware Notes from 1950 through 2000 in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard). Includes a searchable Table of Contents with listing of Photos & Sketches. Requires latest Adobe® Reader® software compatible with your PC operating system. Software is free on-line at www.adobe.com

$15.00 + $2.50 shipping

Catalog of Historical Photographs

 A collection of 62 of the most popular photographs in the Society's collection that will be a valuable and informative addition to your library. You may order photographic prints of individual photographs (8x10) using the convenient catalog order form.

$12.00 + $2.00 shipping

"They Died at Fort Delaware, 1861-1865

Confederate, Union and Civilian"

Compiled by Jocelyn P. Jamison

Published by the Fort Delaware Society, June 1997 (94 pages)

Listing of 2.926 Confederate and 39 civilian prisoners, plus 109 of the 135 Union soldiers who died at the Fort and are now buried in Finns Point National Cemetery across the Delaware River in Salem County, New Jersey.

$8.00 + $1.50 shipping

Other Publications Currently Available

"Confederate Prisoners of War at Fort Delaware." Nancy Travis Keene. Reprint from Delaware History, April 1968, pages 1-27. Recollections of their daily lives, suffering and escapes.

$2.00

"Fire in the Hole: The Rearming of Fort Delaware."  C. Culbert Gerow, III. 1988 Society reprint, 22 pages, illustrated. Chronicles the acquisition of an original 32 pounder Columbiad cannon barrel, the building of a replica carriage, and its installation and firing from a Fort Delaware casemate.

$1.00

"Fort Delaware." W. Emerson Wilson. University of Delaware Press. 1957, 32 pages, illustrated. A fort history.

$2.00

"Fort Delaware in the Civil War." W. Emerson Wilson. Published by the Society in commemoration of the Civil War Centennial, 16 pages.

$3.50

"Fort Delaware Prison Times."  Reproduction of one of two known issues of a newspaper published by POWs late in the war. Dated April, 1865, 4 handwritten pages, reproduced by the Society, 1985.

$1.00

"General Jeff M. Thompson in Fort Delaware." W. Emerson Wilson, ed.  Fort Delaware Society, 1972, 20 pages. Manuscript excerpts, letters and poems of the famed "Swamp Fox".

$1.00

"The Story of Fort Delaware." William P. Frank, ed. Fort Delaware Society, 1955, reprinted, 1983, 14 pages, illustrated. Brief history of the Fort and Pea Patch Island.

$1.00

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Fort Delaware Society
P.O. Box 553
Delaware City, DE  19706