Biography
Edward J. Devitt was a political prisoner condemned to hard labor 'during the war' with the fort's punishment detail. He was held as a civilian political prisoner at Fort Delaware during the U.S. Civil War, detained without trial under the wartime suspension of habeas corpus, and is named among the fellow prisoners in the Rev. Isaac W. K. Handy's 1863–1864 prison diary, 'United States Bonds; or, Duress by Federal Authority.'
Case
Fort Delaware
