Shared Misery, Divergent Lives: A Look at Two of “The Immortal Six Hundred” Part II
For captured Confederates Junius Hempstead and Barney Cannoy, Fort Delaware marked the beginning and end of an odyssey of suffering. Part II: Prisoners, 1864-1865 Both Junius Hempstead and Barney Cannoy, Confederate soldiers captured in General U. S. Grant’s Wilderness and Spotsylvania campaigns, arrived at the Ft. Delaware prison camp on May 17, 1864. Nine days later, Major General John G. […]