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The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Prison life at Fort Delaware. (search)
prisoners form Fort Delaware are indignant at the treatment they received, and their purpose is to "square accounts" with the Yankees if the opportunity is ever afforded them. Among the exchanged prisoners from Fort Delaware who have arrived here is Jos. McMurran, of the 4th Virginia regiment, captured at Kernstown. He agrees with his companions that the treatment of Confederate soldiers was brutal in the extreme. The officers and soldiers in immediate contact with the prisoners were Dutch, and their brutality to our men was without mitigation. In return, our men say that there won't be any more Pennsylvania Dutchmen taken prisoners by them during this war. Striking a prisoner over the head or running a bayonet at him was a common occurrence. A Dutch Provost Marshal, named Segebarth, excelled his brother brutes in maltreating the prisoners. A dungeon, made to accommodate three men, often contained fourteen, and their sufferings were very great. The fare was bread and a ver