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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Escape of prisoners from Fort Delaware. (search)
the Confederacy, but was going to Philadelphia. He had eight canteens around his body, but was not an expert swimmer. The three who landed near Delaware City laid in a cornfield all night, and the next evening, about dark, started on their way South, after first having made known their condition to a farmer, who gave them a good supper. They travelled that night twelve miles through Kent county, Del., and the next day lay concealed in a gentleman's barn. From there they went to Kent county, Md., where the citizens gave them new clothes and money. After this their detection was less probable, as they had been wearing their uniforms the two days previous. They took the cars on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad at Town send and rode to Dover, the capital of Delaware. Sitting near them in the cars were a Yankee Colonel and Captain, and the provost guard passed through frequently. They were not discovered, however, though to escape detection seemed almost impossible. The