tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post1842602650777620794..comments2024-03-28T18:40:05.789-04:00Comments on Writers Who Kill: Jim Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-9776043002934341732011-07-12T21:43:40.386-04:002011-07-12T21:43:40.386-04:00I hope that you YA novel is published. It sounds i...I hope that you YA novel is published. It sounds interesting and a good story to teach kids about the history of Ft. Delaware.Kara Cerisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16484336785514235707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-71589732072545210962011-07-12T11:04:45.359-04:002011-07-12T11:04:45.359-04:00There have to be personal stories from Fort Delawa...There have to be personal stories from Fort Delaware that would make interesting reading. I can't imagine imprisonment could ever be good.<br /><br />I've never worn a hoop skirt but I'd guess, if you sit down in one, you provide an arc to show place your underwear.Pauline Alldredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00847008019331163905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-70928546630692684202011-07-12T10:59:22.306-04:002011-07-12T10:59:22.306-04:00It is always instructive and emotional to walk the...It is always instructive and emotional to walk the actual ground of history. Not far from where I live you can still see the ruts in the ground created by wagon train headed west.Warren Bullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789270258599769915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-67234011830701111522011-07-12T10:30:52.879-04:002011-07-12T10:30:52.879-04:00Although I write contemporary romance, I’ve studie...Although I write contemporary romance, I’ve studied Fort Delaware for a time travel romance. Conditions at Fort Delaware weren’t great either due to lack of funds, lack of preparations for prisoners of war on either side, and overcrowding. Fort Delaware was known in the South as the Andersonville of the North. Many prisoners and guards died from smallpox and lack of medical care and food and are buried in NJ on Finns Point.<br /><br />Here are some books and booklets on the subject. <br /><br />Fort Delaware, Unlikely Allies--Fort Delaware's Prison Community in the Civil War by Dale Fetzer & Bruce Mowday<br />Fort Delaware, A Journal (Diary of a Yankee Private) by Fort Delaware Society <br />Jeff Thompson at Fort Delaware by Fort Delaware Society<br />Fort Delaware Living History Coloring Book by E. Jean Lanyon<br />The Story of Fort Delaware by W. Emerson Wilson<br />Fort Delaware, They Died (1861-1865) by Jocelyn P. JamisonPat Marinellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08256588874304046439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-87986217088286172222011-07-12T09:43:18.433-04:002011-07-12T09:43:18.433-04:00One thing I have learned about reading and writing...One thing I have learned about reading and writing historical material is you need to have your facts correct -- because someone out there will tell you when you're wrong.<br /><br />For example, the Battle of Gettysburg started on July 1, 1863. The famous Pickett's charge was on July 3rd. On July 4th, after awaiting a counter-attack from the Feds that never came, Lee's army began its retreat back to Virginia.<br /><br />Coincidentally, the Confederates surrendered the army at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863, sealing the fate of the Confederacy in the west.<br /><br />Although the Andersonville prison is known to many from the Pulitzer Prize winning book by MacKinlay Kantor (and later movie), the Union had some terrible prisons as well; Elmira, NY being a particularly gruesome example.<br /><br />I would think even worse than wearing the hoop skirts and multiple layers of fabric from the upper class mid-1800s would have been the bone corsets that needed someone else to cinch them tight.<br /><br />I think you made a good decision to stick to stick with the practical Quakers.<br /><br />~ JimJim Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-81449193267030269072011-07-12T05:54:51.663-04:002011-07-12T05:54:51.663-04:00Perhaps because of movies, I had only heard of And...Perhaps because of movies, I had only heard of Andersonville, the Confederate prison--which has been characterized as being brutal. What were the conditions at Fort Delaware?<br /><br />I grew up in PA. We were always very aware of the Civil War. Our school field trips included the Gettysburg Battlefield.E. B. Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16746747050278597888noreply@blogger.com