Historical Articles of Delaware
Click here to read a 1961 News Journal article about Confederates' descendants discussion at a Sussex County Civil War Roundtable.
Read author Thomas Ryan’s article about Delaware’s Samuel Boyer Davis, imprisoned Confederate spy, who escaped the gallows in 1865. Originally published in the
Delaware Coastal Point.
Delaware Confederates to be focus of December forum
(newspaper article from
The Leader & State Register
; November 13, 2008; page 5)
Civil War Message in Bottle Opened, Decoded
(newspaper article by Associated Press writer, Steve Szotak)
Click here to read a newspaper article regarding H.K. Edgerton at the Georgetown 2008 Return's Day Parade from
the Morning Star
(November 20-26, 2008; page 53)
Click here to read a section of the book,
The Garasché, De Bauduy, and Des Chapelles Families: History and Genealogy
by Dorothy Garesché Holland ( pg. 105), which mentions Juliette McLane Garesche's genealogy
Click here to read a section from the book,
Forgotten Heroes of Delaware
, mentioning Mr. & Mrs. P.B. Garesché's service to the Confederacy
Click here to read a section from the book,
War of the Rebellions
(Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 549 & 757), mentioning Mr. P.B. Garesche as superintendent of a South Carolina Confederate powder mill
Click here to read a section from the book,
Concord Story: Sussex County Delaware
, by Kirk Cannon about the Davis family's connection to Delaware.
Click here to read a newspaper article from the
New York Herald
(dated November 1862) on the capture of the Tonawanda by the C.S.S. Alabama.
(PDF format; submitted by Jim Bowden and the GHS)
Click here to read the article about the Delaware Secession Movement from a Sussex County local paper.
(Submitted by GHS)
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 GHS)
Click here to read an article about William Horsey and John Martin's parole dated April 29, 1864.
(Submitted by GHS)
Click here to read an article about Franklin Price and his Fort Delaware imprisonment (POW) dated 1863.
(Submitted by GHS)
Click here to read an article about Evan Dorsey who claimed to have killed John Brown's son dated April 29, 1864.
(Submitted by GHS)
Click here to read an article about Trusten Polk dated 2-22-1863.
(Submitted by GHS)
Click here to read an article about Trusten Polk described by the Union Journal of Georgetown, dated August 6, 1861.
(Submitted by GHS)
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 GHS)
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
Click here to read an article about Tom Meadows of the Delaware Grays and his association with the Richmond Howitzers