Private, Company D, 12th Virginia
Son of William Lyon and Sarah "Sally" Hatcher. Husband of Sarah "Sally" Hatcher. Their children were Euel G., Lucinda Jane, Jathina Patience, and James Rufus.
Dudley was conscripted in 1861 and was captured at the Battle of Seven Pines/Fair Oaks. He was sent to Fort Delaware Prison Camp, Delaware, where he died. His wife, Sarah "Sally", died from measles during the war, as probably did his son, Euel.
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A description of the Fort Delaware Prison Camp where Dudley was imprisoned:
"As the long procession of prisoners staggered out upon the wharf at Fort Delaware, the universal thought was one of Despondency, as if each had been warned like the lost spirits of Dante's Hell, 'Abandon Hope, all ye who enter here!' The reputation of the place for cruelty was already familiar to all of us and it needed no more than a glance at the massive fort with its hundred guns, the broad moat, the green slime dykes and the scores of sentrys [sic] pacing to and fro in all directions to quench every lingering hope of escape."
So wrote 2nd Lieutenant Randolph Abbot Shotwell, a Confederate veteran from North Carolina, about Fort Delaware, a mosquito-infested prison camp on a marshy piece of ground called Pea Patch Island in the middle of the river separating Delaware from New Jersey.
Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 1, 1861, at Elmira, New York, to serve three years; mustered in as first sergeant,
Company E, 86th Infantry, September 25, 1861; killed in action, August 30, 1862, at Bull Run, Virginia.
Son of William Lyon and Sarah "Sally" Hatcher. Husband of Sarah "Sally" Hatcher. Their children were Euel G., Lucinda Jane, Jathina Patience, and James Rufus.
Dudley was conscripted in 1861 and was captured at the Battle of Seven Pines/Fair Oaks. He was sent to Fort Delaware Prison Camp, Delaware, where he died. His wife, Sarah "Sally", died from measles during the war, as probably did his son, Euel.
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A description of the Fort Delaware Prison Camp where Dudley was imprisoned:
"As the long procession of prisoners staggered out upon the wharf at Fort Delaware, the universal thought was one of Despondency, as if each had been warned like the lost spirits of Dante's Hell, 'Abandon Hope, all ye who enter here!' The reputation of the place for cruelty was already familiar to all of us and it needed no more than a glance at the massive fort with its hundred guns, the broad moat, the green slime dykes and the scores of sentrys [sic] pacing to and fro in all directions to quench every lingering hope of escape."
So wrote 2nd Lieutenant Randolph Abbot Shotwell, a Confederate veteran from North Carolina, about Fort Delaware, a mosquito-infested prison camp on a marshy piece of ground called Pea Patch Island in the middle of the river separating Delaware from New Jersey.
Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 1, 1861, at Elmira, New York, to serve three years; mustered in as first sergeant,
Company E, 86th Infantry, September 25, 1861; killed in action, August 30, 1862, at Bull Run, Virginia.
Private, Company D, 12th Virginia
Son of William Lyon and Sarah "Sally" Hatcher. Husband of Sarah "Sally" Hatcher. Their children were Euel G., Lucinda Jane, Jathina Patience, and James Rufus.
Dudley was conscripted in 1861 and was captured at the Battle of Seven Pines/Fair Oaks. He was sent to Fort Delaware Prison Camp, Delaware, where he died. His wife, Sarah "Sally", died from measles during the war, as probably did his son, Euel.
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A description of the Fort Delaware Prison Camp where Dudley was imprisoned:
"As the long procession of prisoners staggered out upon the wharf at Fort Delaware, the universal thought was one of Despondency, as if each had been warned like the lost spirits of Dante's Hell, 'Abandon Hope, all ye who enter here!' The reputation of the place for cruelty was already familiar to all of us and it needed no more than a glance at the massive fort with its hundred guns, the broad moat, the green slime dykes and the scores of sentrys [sic] pacing to and fro in all directions to quench every lingering hope of escape."
So wrote 2nd Lieutenant Randolph Abbot Shotwell, a Confederate veteran from North Carolina, about Fort Delaware, a mosquito-infested prison camp on a marshy piece of ground called Pea Patch Island in the middle of the river separating Delaware from New Jersey.
Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 1, 1861, at Elmira, New York, to serve three years; mustered in as first sergeant,
Company E, 86th Infantry, September 25, 1861; killed in action, August 30, 1862, at Bull Run, Virginia.
Son of William Lyon and Sarah "Sally" Hatcher. Husband of Sarah "Sally" Hatcher. Their children were Euel G., Lucinda Jane, Jathina Patience, and James Rufus.
Dudley was conscripted in 1861 and was captured at the Battle of Seven Pines/Fair Oaks. He was sent to Fort Delaware Prison Camp, Delaware, where he died. His wife, Sarah "Sally", died from measles during the war, as probably did his son, Euel.
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A description of the Fort Delaware Prison Camp where Dudley was imprisoned:
"As the long procession of prisoners staggered out upon the wharf at Fort Delaware, the universal thought was one of Despondency, as if each had been warned like the lost spirits of Dante's Hell, 'Abandon Hope, all ye who enter here!' The reputation of the place for cruelty was already familiar to all of us and it needed no more than a glance at the massive fort with its hundred guns, the broad moat, the green slime dykes and the scores of sentrys [sic] pacing to and fro in all directions to quench every lingering hope of escape."
So wrote 2nd Lieutenant Randolph Abbot Shotwell, a Confederate veteran from North Carolina, about Fort Delaware, a mosquito-infested prison camp on a marshy piece of ground called Pea Patch Island in the middle of the river separating Delaware from New Jersey.
Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 1, 1861, at Elmira, New York, to serve three years; mustered in as first sergeant,
Company E, 86th Infantry, September 25, 1861; killed in action, August 30, 1862, at Bull Run, Virginia.
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