Fort Delaware
In this image:
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James Edward Poindexter
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John Wilson Mahan
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Clark Herbert Barker CSA
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Robert Bradley
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Henry Britain Fuller
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John T. Mann
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James S. Woodall
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George W. Blair
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Bolling G. Foust
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Josiah E. Fuller
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Berryman Fuller
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F. Britton Fuller
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Thomas C. Green
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Philip S. Anthony
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William B. Chattin
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Benjamin F. Stephens
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Moses F. Thornton
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Willis W. Turner
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Hillery Bolton
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William H. Wynn
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Samuel Justus Harris
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Pliant Mahon
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Francis L. Sledge
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Allen William Stokes
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J. H. Anglin
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Samuel Lafayette Hancock
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Edward Preston Hodges
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Joseph H. Turner
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George W. Evans
Where:
Delaware 
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Uploaded: 28 Aug 2017 by Robert Snow.
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Original digital image: 1280 x 960 pixels. Taken with Canon Canon PowerShot S200 camera. Dated 2007:09:16 15:27:58.
POINDEXTER MAHAN BARKER BRADLEY FULLER MANN WOODALL BLAIR FOUST FULLER FULLER FULLER GREEN ANTHONY CHATTIN STEPHENS THORNTON TURNER BOLTON WYNN HARRIS MAHON SLEDGE STOKES ANGLIN HANCOCK HODGES TURNER EVANS
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Alleged not the worst of prison camps, but still 2,436 Confederates are in one mass grave, and there were about 2,700 total deaths per the NPS, including at least 9 men from the 38th: J. H. Anglin, Hillery Bolton, William Chattin, Berryman Fuller, F. Britton Fuller, John W. Mahan, Allen W. Stokes, Howlin W. Stokes, and William H. Wynn. The most prisoners at one time was 12,595 in July of 1863 after Gettysburg(per NPS informational plaque at Finn's National Cemetery in Pennville, New Jersey, where the mass grave is located). There were about 8,000 prisoners in June of 1864.
In August of 1864, the Union shipped 600 men from Fort Delaware to Charleston, South Carolina, and the men were put in the line of fire of cannons from their own side. Named the "immortal 600", 46 of them died, primarily of disease and malnutrition. The list is on Findagrave. This was response by Union General John G. Foster to CSA General Samuel Jones announcing he was putting 50 POW Union officers in a prison in Charleston near the area the Union was bombing. The CSA saying the Union was bombing civilian targets, the Union saying all was fair game because Charleston had munition factories.
The mass grave of 2,436 Confederate dead of Fort Delaware is located across Delaware River at Finn's Point National Cemetery in New Jersey, along with 135 Union guards.
Of note for visitors, the Fort is accessed by a ferry from Delaware City. A quick 10 minute ride, then you take a tram to the entrance of the fort, which is located on Pea Patch island in the middle of the Delaware River. There is a moat around the fort, and a recreation of 1 of the 50+ barn like structures the POWs were housed in. The ferry will also take you to Fort Mott. From Fort Mott, Finn's Point National Cemetery is about a 3/4 mile hike. The obelisk at the site of the mass burial has 12 engraved plates showing the names of the 2,436 buried there.
Also, interesting, 13 German prisoners from World War II who died at Fort Dix, New Jersey are buried near the Confederates.