Glad to hear that you had a good experience visiting Fort Delaware State Park!

If you are interested, I will be happy to do a look-up of your ancestor for you. Enlisted men and officers were held in separate prison barracks for security reasons. Barracks "31" and "32" were room numbers in the wooden barracks out on Pea Patch Island. There is no surviving record of which numbered room was located where. Most of the Kentuckians held at Fort Delaware were captured during Morgan's Raid in the summer of 1863 and transferred to Fort Delaware in the spring of 1864. Most, but not all, were officers. The reproduction barracks building that you visited is positioned over the foundations of a section of the prison pen that was used for Confederate officers.

Send me your ancestor's name and unit at society@fortdelaware.org and I will report back to you what I can find.

Hugh Simmons
Fort Delaware Society
Website: www.fortdelaware.org
E-mail: society@fortdelaware.org