Historical Articles of Delaware
Click here to read a newspaper article (from the New York Herald; November 1862) on the capture of the Tonawanda by the C.S.S. Alabama.
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Click here to read the article about the Delaware Succession Movement from a Sussex County local paper.
(Submitted by GTHS)
Click here to read an article about a vessel from the Nanticoke River (Sussex County, DE) that was seized and its crew arrested in the Chesapeake Bay; dated 9-23-1863.
(Submitted by GTHS)
Click here to read an article about William Horsey and John Martin's parole dated April 29, 1864.
(Submitted by GTHS)
Click here to read an article about Franklin Price and his Fort Delaware imprisonment (POW) dated 1863.
(Submitted by GTHS)
Click here to read an article about Evan Dorsey who claimed to have killed John Brown's son dated April 29, 1864.
(Submitted by GTHS)
Click here to read an article about Trusten Polk dated 2-22-1863.
(Submitted by GTHS)
Click here to read an article about Trusten Polk described by the Union Journal of Georgetown, dated August 6, 1861.
(Submitted by GTHS)
Click here to read an article about Trusten Polk who was captured with his wife and family at Bolivar Landing (Arkansas), dated 9-3-1863.
(Submitted by GTHS)
Click here to read an article from The Seaford Leader (January 20, 2000 p.13) about Leonidas Polk.
Click here to read pages 18 and 19 from the book, Delaware Stays in the Union, by John S. Spruance
Click here to read pages 22 and 23 from the book, Delaware Stays in the Union, by John S. Spruance
The Brandywine Home Front during the Civil War
(1861 - 1865) by Norman B. Wilkinson