Biography
Thomas Cannon, of Sussex County, Delaware, was one of six Sussex County, Delaware citizens brought in together 'charged with disloyalty' — Southern sympathies, refusing to walk under the U.S. flag, and aiding a Confederate's escape. 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.'
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Fort Delaware
