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The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Prison life at Fort Delaware. (search)
every night. On some days, as the caprice of the commanding officer happened to be, the officers were permitted to walk for half an hour on the parapet of the fort. Officers and privates were subjected to the same fare, which consisted of a small allowance of sour bread and salt meat twice a day, with an occasional introduction of very weak soup. The Government allowance for rations purports to be sixteen cents a day for each prisoner; but it was stated in a Philadelphia newspaper that Capt. Gibson, by "his excellent management," saved about two-thirds of this sum, and expended it in clothing, which the prisoners never received the benefit of. Letters were occasionally sent them, by stealth, from sympathizing friends in Philadelphia and New York, conveying the intelligence that presents had been forwarded to them, but they never reached their destination, being intercepted on the route. Until the exchange of prisoners was agreed upon they were not allowed to receive newspapers; but
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Skirmishing below Richmond. (search)
re was no abatement in the severity of their treatment. Rowan states that the Baltimore ladies sent the Petrel's crew a large lot of clothing, which was received by Lieut. Harvey, of that vessel, and distributed. He turned over the surplus to Mr. Gibson, commandant of Fort Lafayette, for distribution among the other privateersmen. Gibson distributed it to the chicken headed Confederates who had taken the oath of allegiance to the Yankee Government, and on one of the sailor's asking him for clGibson distributed it to the chicken headed Confederates who had taken the oath of allegiance to the Yankee Government, and on one of the sailor's asking him for clothes put him in irons, and so kept him till he was delivered up at Aiken's farm, on Tuesday. Rowan and the other men of the Petrel were carried to Philadelphia, and consigned to Moyamensing prison, where they were kept in irons for six months and twenty days, thence were carried to Fort Lafayette, where, after the departure of most of the able-bodied soldiers of the garrison to reinforce McClellan, they were required to do police duty, and, refusing, were again ironed. For months the threat o