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During the Civil War, Delaware was a slave state that remained in the Union. (Delaware voters voted not to secede on January 3, 1861.) Although most Delaware citizens who fought in the Civil War served in regiments on the Union side, some did, in fact, serve in Delaware companies on the Confederate side in the Maryland and Virginia Regiments ...
39°35′24″N75°34′19″W / 39.59000°N 75.57194°W. Fort Delaware. Part of American Civil War prison camps 1861–1865 Harbor Defenses of the Delaware 1898–1945. Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. Fort Delaware during the American Civil War.
2nd Delaware Infantry Regiment. 3rd Delaware Infantry Regiment. 4th Delaware Infantry Regiment. 5th Delaware Infantry Regiment. 6th Delaware Infantry Regiment. 7th Delaware Infantry Regiment. 8th Delaware Infantry Regiment. 9th Delaware Infantry Regiment. Sterling's Infantry Company.
The 1st Delaware Infantry Regiment, later known as the 1st Delaware Veteran Infantry Regiment was a United States volunteer infantry regiment raised for Union Army service in the American Civil War. Part of the II Corps it served in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. [1]
Fort Delaware State Park is a center of historic Civil War interpretation. Award winning reenactors provide a glimpse into the past of Pea Patch Island. [6] Visitors to the park may have the chance to watch a blacksmith at work, take part in the firing of a gunpowder charge of an 8-inch (20 cm) Columbiad gun or assist a laundress at work.
Henry Hayes Lockwood (August 17, 1814 – December 7, 1899) was an American soldier and academic from Delaware who rose to the rank of Brigadier General during the American Civil War, captured the Delmarva Peninsula including Virginia's Eastern Shore and headed the Union Middle Department in Baltimore before returning to academic life at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Service. The 3rd Delaware Infantry Regiment was organized at Camden, Delaware beginning December 30, 1861 and mustered in May 15, 1862 for three years of service. The regiment was attached to Slough's Brigade, Defenses of Washington, D.C., May 1862.
William Cannon (March 15, 1809 – March 1, 1865) was an American merchant and politician from Bridgeville, in Sussex County, Delaware.He was a member of the Democratic Party and later the Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware during much of the Civil War.