---
title: 'Prison Life at Fort McHenry'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas Dwight Witherspoon, Sr.'
date: 1880-02-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'History (General)'
- 'Autobiography and Biography'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 23'
- 'John 14'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/witherspoon-1880-prison-life-at-fort-mchenry
---

# Prison Life at Fort McHenry

Rev. T.D. Witherspoon's first-person account of Confederate chaplains imprisoned at Fort McHenry after Gettysburg. He ministers to the dying, escorts a colonel's remains, and recounts harsh prison conditions.

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