Biography
Patrick H. Hearne, of Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware, was one of six Sussex County, Delaware citizens 'charged with disloyalty' for Southern sympathies. 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
