Identifier: unitedstatesbond00hand (find matches)
Title: United States bonds; or Duress by federal authority: a journal of current events during an imprisonment of fifteen months, at Fort Delaware
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Handy, Isaac W. K., 1815-1878
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons Fort Delaware (Del.)
Publisher: Baltimore, Turnbull Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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kitchen. Fortunately fcrus, the weather is not so cold as it has been. Although wehave experienced inconvenience, we have not suffered much.Yet we regard it as strange, that the island should be allowedto be without fuel, when it may be so easily procured. The strangers in ISTo. 1 are keeping themselves remarkablyclose. Their door is always shut, except when passing in orout; they seldom exchange words with us; and they look likemen who are ashamed or afraid. They have paroles of theisland; but seem to make very little use of them, except atnight, when they appear to be visiting among the Yankees.Preparations are being made to block up the stairway with adoor—probably with a view to keeping out the Confederateofficers, whose passing to and fro may not be agreeable to the galvanized men, now that they are not on speaking terms. A very large steamer has hauled up at Delaware City,which we hope may be a transport taking in coal, preparatoryto receiving a load of prisoners for exchange.
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DURESS BY FEDERAL AUTHORITY. 353 Brogdens health is failing fast. He needs the open air,and suitable exercise. A few more months of imprisonmentwould probably bring him to an early grave. The representatives at evening worship, were Grymes, May-nadier, Drummond, Devitt and myself. Major Rasin, who isvery regular iu his attendance, was absent to-night. Devitt,though not a Christian, is seldom absent—a pleasant record,perhaps, for his father, who is a Presbyterian elder. XL April. Friday, ld.—tl All Fools Day! Could the world havelooked in upon our prison, to-day, perhaps we would all havebeen considered fools, sure enough. It is astonishing, what aninterest grown men, aged men, wise men, will take in themerest trifles, when shut out from their accustomed duties, andavocations. The passing of every vessel upon the river, thearrangement of every new detail of men, every arrival, everysound of a gun, the receipt of a box, the opening of a letter, adiscussion, a change, a rumor, anythi

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