The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-05
IN PRISON AT FORT DELAWARE.
INCIDENTS OF "a YEARS. AGO
RECALLED.

One of Them Describing Their
Prison Life-A Pocket MemOran-
dunn Book Preserves the Memories
A. Crane Recalls His Stay at Fort
Delaware.
Mr.. w. M. Stevens of Liberty county is
the possessor of a pocket memorandum
book which is an interesting relic of the
struggle between the states. The book
was the property of William NJ. Stevens.
father of the present owner who was
a lieutenant in the Fifth Georgia Cavalry
The book was in the possession of Lieut..
Stevens when he was captured and sent
as a prisoner to Fort Delaware, in
Delaware bay about forty miles below
Philadelphia. The idea occurred to him
to make use of the book as an
album and to secure the signatures of his
brother officers, who were with him in the
prison. He succeeded in securing a num-
Der of these. signatures. 1t is probable,
however, that he began this work in the
summer of 1865, and that the war being
over the prisoners were paroled and re-
turned to their homes before a complete
list could be secured.
Besides the list of signatures the book
contains a song entitled I'm Prison at
Fort Delaware" 1t was written by
one of the imprisoned officers, but the
name of the author is not given It is in
the negro dialect, and shows that even
the most adverse circumstances could not
entirely depress the spirits of the old Con-
feds. The song describes the prison life.
OF the list of officers given, several were
from Savannah, and a number from Geor-
gla. Only one of those from Savannah is
now known to be living, Mr. Horace A.
Crane, vice president of the Southern
Bank. Mr.. Crane was captured at Fort
McAllister, where he was on invalid duty
when Shermans army came through Sa-
vannah, and was taken to Fort Delaware
with several hundred other prisoners cap
tured IN Savannah and vicinity The
names given in the book are as follows:
James Strawbridge, colonel First LouisI-
ana Infantry Regulars. New Orleans. La.
Thomas W. Hooper, colonel Second
Georgia, Rome Ga.
James w. Hinton, colonel Sixty-eighth
Regiment, North Carolina Infantry, Eliza
beth City, N. C.
Ed N Atkinson, colonel Twenty-sixth
Georgia Regiment. Waynesville, Ga.
Isaac Hardeman, Lieutenant colonel
Twelfth Georgia Regiment, Army North
ern Virginia, Clinton, Ga.
A. w. Gibson. major Forty-fifth Geor-
ga Regiment, Knoxville, Ga.
T. E. Jamison major Forty-eighth Ten
nessee, Columbia, Tenn.
]. c. Mcdonald, major Fourth Georgia
Cavalry, Waynesville, Wayne county,
Georgia.
j. Raiford Bell, major Twelfth MISSISSIPPI
pi Infantry, Yazoo county Mississippi.
Francis Holmes, lieutenant Twenty-ninth
Mississippi Regiment, Horn Lake, De Soto
county, Mississippi.
W. L. Branson, Abingdon Va.
Andrew L. Clarke, first lieutenant Fiji
tenth Mississippi Infantry, Decatur, New
ton county, Mississippi.
Richard Deignan, lieutenant Philips Le-
gon Columbus, Ga.
A. ]. Queen, first lieutenant Company
F. Twentieth Virginia Cavalry, Janelew,
Lewis county. West Virginia.
A. R. Harwood, Pulaski, Tenn.
John c. Wright Milan, Gibson county,
Tenn.
James A. Sloan, lieutenant Fourth Geor-
gia Cavalry, Dalton, Whitfield county,
Georgia.
J. H. Guthrie, Tenth Confederate Cav
airy, Pinckneyville, Ala.
Daniel A. AIosely, Holly Springs, Miss.
P. w. Twitty, Albany, Ga.
R. H. Buckner, Patriot, Perry county,
Tennessee.
A. Ogletree, Georgetown, Quitman coun-
ty, Georgia.
Your bunk mate and friend. Sincerely,
]. w. Middlebrooks, lieutenant Company
K First Texas Legion address Sweet
Home, Lavaea county, Texas
A. G. Bailey, captain Sixty-fourth North
Carolina Infantry, Abingdon, Va.
]. C. Moore, lieutenant Third Confeder-
ate Cavalry, Sewell Mills. Melgs county,
Tennessee.
j. B. Hawkins, Bounty Land, Pickens
district, South Carolina.
w. V. Russell, lieutenant Eleventh Geor-
gLa Infantry, Tunnel Hill, Whitfield coun-
ty, Georgia,
George w. Moon, captain Company f,
Cobb's Georgia Legion, Newman, Ga.
John A Moore, Fort Blackamore, Scott
county, Virginia.
]. H. Stickley, lieutenant Company I,
Twenty-sixth Virginia Battalion Infantry,
Hoston, Va.
John S. Burruss, Chllesburg, Caroline
county Virginia.
Jesse NJ. Burlison, Democrat P. o., Bun
combe county. North Carolina.
James w. Wray, Lynchburg, Va
]. D. Bond, lieutenant Fifty-ninth Ala
bama Infantry, Helicon, Lowndes county,
Alabama.
R. Walker Smith, captain Company X,
Fiftieth Alabama Infantry, York, Walker
county, Alabama
G. r. Pope, second lieutenant First Reg
iment Kentucky Cavalry, Danville, XIV.
W. r. Radcliffe, lieutenant Hoods Bat
talon Peters burg Va
A. C. Ivexy, lieutenant Fifty-first Geor-
ga Regiment, Colquitt, Miller county,
Georgia.
B. F. Barrett. lieutenant Eighteenth
Tennessee Infantry, Army of Tennessee.
Woodbury., Tenn.
E. L. Cox, lieutenant Sixty-eighth Regi-
ment North Carolina Infantry, Nyack,
Cur1ituck county, North Carolina
D. T. Vaughan lieutenant Company A.
Twenty second South Carolina Regiment.
Edgefield Court House, s. C.
Cole White, Lynnville. Giles county,
Tennessee.
James CaSsell, second lieutenant Compa-
ny H, Twenty-fifth Virginia Regiment