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The frowning walls of Fort Delaware. When scurvy ravaged the fort’s captive population in 1864, the Union’s chief of prisons, Colonel William Hoffman, refused to let $23,000 in the prison’s relief fund be used to purchase vegetables. (Photo by Mary Ann Snider)